On Oct 8, 2:01 pm, "\(used to be\) Fat Sam"
<samandja...@knox.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

You probably don't want to do that.  Sorry.  But if you tell the paper
you are copyrighting the picture, they won't touch it.

In the US, everything is copyrighted anyway as soon as you take the
picture.  I don't know about the UK.  But if you expressly tell them
it's copyrighted, then you're going to have to have sort sort of
written agreement with the paper for them to use it.  They will want
unlimited rights and reprint rights, so why bother.

If someone uses it -- post publication, first off, your notice won't
matter and second off, the paper will fight it if it's worth fighting
(and you already gave your publication rights to the paper so you
won't get anything out of it anyway).

Newspapers aren't going to use un-attributed photos or things they
"steal".  Don't worry too much about that.

I bigger issue might be permissioning.  For news in the US, you don't
need any permissions but for other uses you do.  So if you are
reselling, you'll probably need to keep track of releases (which is a
PITA).

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:01:14 +0100, "\(used to be\) Fat Sam"
<samandjanet@knox.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

You're welcome.  ;^)

And this morning, reading up on the features of my new 50D, I see that it
allows you to enter a copyright notice to be included in the EXIF data.
(Actually, it's mentioned only in passing in the 50D Users' Guide, but you'll
find it in the latest version of the EOS Utility.)

Bob

On Oct 8, 2:05 pm, "\(used to be\) Fat Sam"
<samandja...@knox.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

Most small papers are starved for photos.  Go talk to the person in
charge.  There might be a copyright or permissioning issue -- or it
might be too stale or go against policy.  But go talk to the editor
and see what he/she has to say.

If it's a sports picture, go talk to the sports editor.  Normally
sports pictures don't go through the photo editor because they are
editorial.  Sports normally run their own shop.

Our small, local paper will publish anything.  Sports and sports
pictures sells papers for them.  Our larger regional paper is from the
next county over.  They won't publish anything below "varsity" level
(upper level of high school).  But if you have a nice picture of
little kids, they'll take it and run it in their "community" section
as as a community feature but not sports.  For our county (they are in
the next county over), they won't even publish varsity unless it's a
big game in a popular sport.  The big paper in the area won't publish
anything except big-school, big-game pictures.  They don't run run-of-
the-mill sports photos.  So you sort of have to know their policies
(and deadlines).

Now, having said all of that, there are exceptions.  My kid was
playing in a lacrosse game when he was 12.  The local paper wasn't
there and probably wouldn't have run a picture of the game (it was an
away game).  However, the New York Times sent a reporter AND
photographer a couple of hundred miles to cover the game.  So there
you go --you can never tell.  The Times covered it as a story on the
rise of lacrosse on Indian Reservations since lacrosse is a
traditional game among the Iroquois and the game was in a league that
consisted of the tribes of the Iroquois Confederation.  Regular
lacrosse would not have been covered but because they were Indian
teams, it was sort of different (to those folks living in New York
City).

So go talk to your paper.  Good luck.