Protecting your photos is essential for any photographer. Fidealis allows you to time-stamp your shots with proof recognized by the courts.
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At a time when use of the Internet has become paramount, photo copyright infringement has become commonplace.
The Internet is not an image bank that you can use with impunity. There are laws to guarantee photo copyright.
This terminology is the English equivalent of the expression photo copyright. Copyright is governed by two laws, one dating from March 11 1957 and the other from July 3 1986, both of which are enshrined in the French Intellectual Property Code. An author is the natural person who creates a work of the mind, in this case a photograph.
Copyrighted photos bear the symbol ©, with the year of publication and the photographer’s name.
These elements are essential for submitting photos correctly.
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Photo copyright can be respected, and the procedure is very simple.
All you have to do is register your photos with an authorized organization.
It couldn’t be simpler: there’s a structure called FIDEALIS, which enables photographers to register their work in just a few clicks via the Internet. All that’s required is an electronic signature, and a bailiff’s deposit as proof of the date of deposit.
Photographers also use other tricks to protect their photos on the Internet, such as not saving the image, or downgrading the resolution of the photo so that it cannot be used. But it’s better to use the services of a specialized organization to register your photos, especially as the online procedure is simplified.
What’s more, the creation of an object’s design confers copyright on its creator by the very fact of its creation. Registering a design is therefore essential, as copyright design will serve to protect the author’s creation.
If a photographer has discovered fraud after submitting an image, legal recourse is easy under existing laws.
If photo copyright has not been established, it’s the photographer’s word against the fraudster’s. The photographer must therefore have tangible proof. He must therefore have tangible proof, such as negatives, if the photo was taken with a film camera, or the source file if the photos are digital. Moreover, the procedure is likely to take longer.
To avoid this kind of problem and get bogged down in an endless legal battle, it’s best to protect your photos.
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