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For companies working with images in their day-to-day business - such as print providers dealing with graphics for a P-O-P project, for example - they must be certain those images are indeed free and clear to work with. No print providers want to go through the legal hassles and expenses that can arise if it's found that a project comprises images whose copyright has been infringed. Not only will it be difficult to collect payment from a client being sued for copyright infringement, but the print provider himself may find that he, too, is implicated in a lawsuit.

I recently found out that a 25 year old photograph of mine was included in a dvd version of a music history documentary film. I don't have my copyright registered on the photo and the dvd has already been distributed on a global basis, so I don't suppose I can even request to be...

From our fellow Germans this today on BBChttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12215921German researchers have created software called X-Pire that gives images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key.

Just just got a call from a photographer friend. He is an amateur and simply wants his data in his images which can't be easily removed. He was wondering if I knew anyone who has used  Digimark and TinEye services. I thought this was an interesting question fit for shakodo. I...