Time to vote for April Image of the Month (IotM). All MobiTog members are eligible to vote. Voting ends May 7.
Not "putting on airs" at all... It's sometimes quite necessary, unfortunately, especially in this New World of online sharing. I've waivered back and forth - sometimes I don't want anything *extra* on the image, but really mostly I just always forget to watermark it. And, also, unless it's plastered over the whole image, people can crop it out if they really want to.Thanks RoseCat. I thought perhaps people might think I was putting on airs, and I didn't want to appear so. But I found many years ago that some people will take advantage if they can. I know our good members here don't fall into that category, but the site gets many visitors who never join up and some, very small, percentage of those, may not fully understand US Copyright laws. Anyhow, thanks for the reply.
Cheers,
Unkei
Not "putting on airs" at all... It's sometimes quite necessary, unfortunately, especially in this New World of online sharing. ...So, feel free to watermark away! No judgements here at all.
Of course I regularly steal Robert Lancaster 's work, and submit it to the Guggenheim under my own name - but as a general rule I think plagiarising images is exactly as unethical and abhorrent as plagiarising written work. And horribly disrespectful of the author's work and time and research/creativity.
And as far as I can tell, protection of the ownership of images shared online relies wholly on the ethics of the viewing public.. ? I've heard disquieting stories of people's visual art turning up in all kinds of strange places - and in all kinds of strange forms.
(And as you say, RoseCat , a watermark is no real impediment to those with evil intent - I have no trouble with Robert Lancaster 's )
Of course I regularly steal Robert Lancaster 's work, and submit it to the Guggenheim under my own name -
(And as you say, RoseCat , a watermark is no real impediment to those with evil intent - I have no trouble with Robert Lancaster 's )
Not "putting on airs" at all... It's sometimes quite necessary, unfortunately, especially in this New World of online sharing. I've waivered back and forth - sometimes I don't want anything *extra* on the image, but really mostly I just always forget to watermark it. And, also, unless it's plastered over the whole image, people can crop it out if they really want to.
So, feel free to watermark away! No judgements here at all.