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Posted 20/02/2014 - 20:22
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gwing wrote:
As you say life is too short, but it would be tempting to lift the watermark back out of the image and pop it on something else, say some photos of broken down or burned out vehicles in the middle of the desert
From my experience of copyright ( or lack of it ) in the Middle East it's not worth the bother. There used to be hundreds of shop selling bootleg everything you can think of.
Smeggypants wrote:
here's one of my pics I took in Abu Dhabi Souk in 1986. Cheeky sods have even put a watermark on it.
http://www.desertsafariabudhabitour.com/old-souk-abu-dhabi/
I won't be bothering to pursue the infringement. Life's too short.
That does take the biscuit - if 'twere me I might perhaps invite them to make a contribution for their use of the image though. here's one of my pics I took in Abu Dhabi Souk in 1986. Cheeky sods have even put a watermark on it.
http://www.desertsafariabudhabitour.com/old-souk-abu-dhabi/
I won't be bothering to pursue the infringement. Life's too short.
As you say life is too short, but it would be tempting to lift the watermark back out of the image and pop it on something else, say some photos of broken down or burned out vehicles in the middle of the desert
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Posted 20/02/2014 - 20:50
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And in every street market in the UK
Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
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