Can I ask?

dave.turley · December 4, 2010

Hi,
I don't know whether this is the right part of the forum to post this. I'd like to know how I would prevent another user downloading a photo and performing their own interpretation of it without my permission. I'm open to C&C, but it irks me a little when I may have spent some of my own time on something and then presented it for viewing, only to have a copy of it played around with for their own idea of how I can 'improve' it without me saying it's ok for them to do that.
Thanks and Regards
Dave

Richard · December 4, 2010

Dave,

There's no technical way to prevent it. I think we're about evenly split whether unsolicited edits are OK or not, but if you put a notice in your sig saying that you don't want people to edit your images without permission, the vast majority of people around here will respect it.

dave.turley · December 4, 2010

Richard wrote: »

Dave,

There's no technical way to prevent it. I think we're about evenly split whether unsolicited edits are OK or not, but if you put a notice in your sig saying that you don't want people to edit your images without permission, the vast majority of people around here will respect it.

Hi Richard,
Thanks for your reply. I'm not precious about it, it just grates a little. Like saying to Leonardo..."If you use 'liquify', you can get that Mona Lisa to smile a bit more naturally"...Not that I'm saying I'm anything special, just that I took the time to go out an take some photographs, and a few lines might prompt me to try a different approach rather than a wholesale, "Give that to me and let me show you what a real photographer does"...I'll try the sig thing though.
Thanks and Regards

Angelo · December 7, 2010

dave.turley wrote: »

...it just grates a little.

indeed!

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