I think we do need to make it clear though that for people on sites such as Pinterest they are still infringing the photographer's copyright whether we have registered our images or not. Every photograph is the intellectual property of the person w [Διαβάστε περισσότερα...] αναρτήθηκε την I do not want my images shareable on sites like Pinterest. Please opt me out!

I think we do need to make it clear though that for people on sites such as Pinterest they are still infringing the photographer's copyright whether we have registered our images or not. Every photograph is the intellectual property of the person who took it. Copyright protection comes into existence even if the copyright is not registered with the Copyright Office - this is also the case if you don't put a copyright notice on the image. We still own the copyright of our photographs.However, as was mentioned previously if you are looking at taking it to court and suing on your rights; you do need to have first registered your image with the Copyright Office. But quite honestly as we can see with the development of social media sites and ever expanding web usage it would seem pretty impossible to ever seriously consider this as an option - is it really possible to trace down every copyright infringement and consider suing?!! Surely you would end up spending more money and time than you could ever possibly make in compensation. Maybe that is why people can get away with doing it? Because unfortunately it is easy for them to do so. It should be made more difficult for people to take and use our images without proper links and copyright notices in the first place - perhaps removing the Pinit button from DT would be a good place to start :) posted in I do not want my images shareable on sites like Pinterest. Please opt me out!