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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 7595344, member: 88829&quot;]I haven&#039;t been posting for quite a while because of the amount of effort it took to make an image that communicated exactly what I wanted it to say, i.e. what people would see.&nbsp; In my photography each image got bracketed three steps up and three steps down.&nbsp; From those I would select one and go to work in photoshop adjusting cropping, size, tone, color balance, and saturation.&nbsp; In most cases a bit of alteration had to be made.&nbsp; Nothing ever turned out as ideally as I wanted, but I worked at it.&nbsp; All so it would do a good job of communicating on a free website.&nbsp; But in the end it got to be too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, to hear you say that my effort was mostly not creative, and that you have the right to take it as your own, and maybe even use it in a book you intend to sell, without any photo credit to me or even a recollection of who made the image - makes me wonder why I should care at all about the quality of my work. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been at photography since 1973, and one of the first things I learned is that real photographs are not taken, they are made.&nbsp; That is still true even after the move to digital.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;in recent years a debate has arisen as to whether punitive damages may be awarded in addition to actual damages and profits under the Copyright Act. Under the Act, a plaintiff may elect either actual damages and profits or statutory damages; statutory damages may be enhanced in cases of willful infringements. The statute is silent with regard to punitive damages but some experts have suggested that the silence does not necessarily mean that punitive damages are completely precluded by the Act.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/565/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/565/" rel="nofollow">https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/565/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Moral rights?&nbsp; The book might be yours, but not all the photos in it will be.&nbsp; Images you did not make and used without permission you will have stolen unless they are in the public domain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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