Add a copyright notice after your image tags

tomoscott

I'm not really a fan of watermarks on photos, but I wanted some way to display a copyright notice on every photo. Here's a handy way to do that:

Add a CSS block to your gallery pages.
Add the following css:

p.sm-tile-keywords:after {
font-size:0.8em;
margin-left:30px;
font-style:italic;
white-space: pre;
content:"\A copyright 2014, Your Name";
}

This will insert a line after the keywords and put a copyright notice in a smaller font. The "white-space: pre" directive is what gets the line break in there and also treats the spaces as hard spaces so the copyright notice is aligned with the keywords.

denisegoldberg

Thanks for this, very interesting.

The only problem I see with it is that the copyright date isn't likely to be the same for all of your photos. If a date is included I thought it needed to be the year from the date the photo was taken.

--- Denise

tomoscott

IANAL, but this site seemed to have a pretty good explanation. So, to be perfectly safe, I could use the first year any my photos were published. But I also could modify it so that it shows a range of years, e.g. "copyright 2006 to 2014, Tom O Scott".

BTW, It might look nicer of you use the copyright symbol, e.g.:

p.sm-tile-keywords:after {
font-size:0.8em;
margin-left:30px;
font-style:italic;
white-space: pre;
content:"\A \00a9 2006 to 2014, Your Name";
}

Also you can insert spaces in betwen the "\A" (the new line) and the "\00a9" (copyright symbol), so that the text lines up with the tags.

denisegoldberg

tomoscott wrote: »

IANAL, but this site seemed to have a pretty good explanation.

Thanks.

I have a full copyright in my images (copyright + date + my name) but I've settled for a not quite correct (no year) copyright watermark on my images. I figure it's the one inside the image that really matters. I want something visible (on the image) because too many people just take screen grabs.

--- Denise

tomoscott

I know you're aware of this, but just cropping 1/2" off the right of most of your images will eliminate your watermark. I've found some of my images stolen by using this Google tool. It's amazingly accurate! I wrote to the owners of the sites that took them, and they apologized profusely, and agreed to replace the stolen images with ones that had a link to my site on them, so it was a win-win.

denisegoldberg

tomoscott wrote: »

I know you're aware of this, but just cropping 1/2" off the right of most of your images will eliminate your watermark. I've found some of my images stolen by using this Google tool. It's amazingly accurate! I wrote to the owners of the sites that took them, and they apologized profusely, and agreed to replace the stolen images with ones that had a link to my site on them, so it was a win-win.

Yes, I'm aware that it isn't protection, just a statement of sorts.

That's awesome that you were able to track down some stolen images.

--- Denise