Staying out of the press - legal advice please

danfortl

I want to start a site on smugmug with pictures from the charity events that we do. I will put the site on password, but there are still concerns that the pictures will be reproduced in the public media - i.e. in page 6 of the New York Post. Does anyone know of a way to put some legal jargon at the bottom of each page to scare away the press?


thanks! Laura

ian408

danfortl wrote:

I want to start a site on smugmug with pictures from the charity events that we do. I will put the site on password, but there are still concerns that the pictures will be reproduced in the public media - i.e. in page 6 of the New York Post. Does anyone know of a way to put some legal jargon at the bottom of each page to scare away the press?


thanks! Laura

Remember the old saying "Never write anything in an e-mail that you aren't
prepared to discuss at a press conference."?

I hate to sound flippant. But if you don't want them in the press, don't put
them on a server. Whether the media comes looking or not, the people you
give the password to may well forward something interesting on. In some
cases, the media might assume that the person who took the image was its'
rightful owner and run the picture.

If you still want to do this, watermark the images with a copyright notice
(in such a way the image won't be published).

BTW, this applies to any networked server and not just smugmug.

Ian