Copyright Workflow for Photographers

Book excerpt: Why do you need to register the copyright in your photographs? Should you really be worried about people stealing your images? How has the legal landscape for photographers changed with the emergence of internet photo-sharing? How do you protect your images while still "getting your work out there?" In Copyright Workflow for Photographers, copyright attorney Chris Reed answers all of these questions and more, helping you build best practices for copyright registration and management into your existing image-processing workflow using the popular Adobe Creative Cloud software suite. Part legal guide, part software manual, this book offers step-by-step guidance on protecting, managing, and enforcing intellectual property rights in images using specific software tools. You'll learn the most efficient--and painless--methods to protect your images while improving your digital workflow using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and Adobe Acrobat. There is no better resource for helping you through this essential, yet hard-to-tackle topic.