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{ Do You Know … } what is protected by The Copyright Act?

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Important Notice about Copyright Protection

The Copyright Act protects photographers by giving the author of the photograph the exclusive rights to reproduce your photographs. This includes the right to control the making of copies. It is illegal to copy or reproduce these photographs elsewhere without our permission, and violators of this Federal Law will be subject to its civil and criminal penalties. We will try to accommodate all reasonable requests. Please feel free to discuss your needs with us so that we may have the opportunity to serve you better.

What this means:

  • Copying, scanning, saving on your computer, photographing the image, copying to myspace, facebook, etc., is violation of copyright laws.
  • If you would like an image for posting on your blog, web page, etc., you may request a web-sized image for this purpose.