Hello everyone,
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
I just stumbled upon another realtor website who stole one of my images to enhance his own image on his website. It was shot for another realtor and probably lifted from the MLS site to put on the masthead of his own site. So, am I going to spend time and money hunting down this realtor to give him a private copyright seminar?
How come Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (and many homegrown programmers) can create software and music with great control over copying and usage yet there is not an imbedded option for us to protect our images? If you buy a $30 plug-in online, there is a box that pops up asking for a license key. If it expires in a year, it asks you to renew and then gives a new key. When you make a copy for a friend, he can't use it unless he has his own key (which costs another $30). Why can't we have that control over our images?
Yes, Adobe is in bed with both photographers AND publishers (but it's the publishers who get flowers in the morning). They will not spite the publishers to help us with protecting images. So, does anyone out there know of a way to digitally control distribution and usage of our images? Would anyone like to make millions developing this plug-in?
Please don't talk about digital watermarking since this only works after-the-fact and requires me to hunt. I want something that will not allow an image to be copied or used without contacting me for a license. This would have prevented the above-mentioned realtor and many more violators that I have yet to catch. My clients would have the key and so would their ad agencies but it will stop there.
Please help! I know that the actor Peter Finch died soon after making the statement at the beginning of this post. I can feel my blood pressure boiling....help...
Corey Weiner
http://redsquarephoto.com 
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