You don't have a copyright interest as you did it as a request by the photo
owner. The usurping website is using the photograph as an ad. I would have the
Museum tell the website to delete it website name from the photo. I would also
write directly to Google Adsense and ask them to remove the pictures from their
site.
Roy
In a message dated 8/20/2014 6:22:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
elson@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
You are
right. A watermark is translucent.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/watermark
There
is another issue. I just didn't mention this earlier so as not to complicate
the discussion.
The original photos are faded and dirty. They were
owned by a private collector, who gave it to the museum. The curator asked me
to retouch the photos. I did so for free, as the curator and I are friends and
we belong to a group called The Heritage Conservation Advocates. I know this
isn't what other photographers would suggest -- not to ask for money in
exchange for work -- but I did so anyway.
Now that some people have
photographed the retouched, framed photos, and putting them in cdodev.com with
Google Adsense -- thereby making the website commercial -- I feel I'm a victim
of theft.
Do I have copyright on the retouched photos. I do not yet
know a law regarding this matter in my country -- Philippines -- but in your
country, who owns copyright of the retouched
photos?
