Copyright/sigline on finished prints?

aerialphoto

I'm considering marketing some of my extra curricular aerial photo work (like this stuff, for example) as 10x - 20x prints.

Any opinions on whether to include a digital signature in the corner, or even a copyright line done tastefully on the final customer prints?

JESTER

Scott, These are your "Masterpieces". I would consider buying some and your name or copyright done tastefully would not bother me a bit. If you sell I definately think your name should be on it someplace.

aerialphoto

JESTER wrote:

Scott, These are your "Masterpieces". I would consider buying some and your name or copyright done tastefully would not bother me a bit. If you sell I definately think your name should be on it someplace.

Thanks jester... I'll even throw in a Universal pic if I get one!

aerialphoto

A little update on this. I actually decided against the signature. After getting my full size images (and boy was that a chore) set up with the signature I started to see some problems. If a customer orders an odd size print the signature would no doubt be out of place, partially cut off, or completely cut off. That already happened on one of my test prints. So, I dropped the idea and just went with backprinting.

I also will probably be selling digital downloads. Some of those would be ok with sigs, but I think a commercially licensed download should probably be left without the signatures.

If I start selling mounted prints (I used to do a lot of fine arts work), I'll absolutely sign the mattboard as if it were "art".

nipprdog

aerialphoto wrote:

So, I dropped the idea and just went with backprinting.

Don't know if this helps or not, but I believe backprinting is only done on 8x10 and smaller;

http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-backprinting

aerialphoto

Thanks...actually I'd forgotten about that. The larger printers don't do backprinting. Makes sense!