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i am working on a mailer for a church and need a good picture of a family outdoors. if anyone has any large clear outdoor pics of their family, post them here and you may end up in the church's mailer!-----pics must be large so they will have good resolution after i shrink them (most internet pics are only 72dpi, which is low res)------

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Quote, originally posted by desert_dweller »I guess the picture of me and the fam sitting on the front porch or our trailer, making a pyramid out of empty PBR cans by the light of a bug zapper will not due you much good for the church mailer.HAHAHAAH!

Quote, originally posted by desert_dweller »I guess the picture of me and the fam sitting on the front porch or our trailer, making a pyramid out of empty PBR cans by the light of a bug zapper will not due you much good for the church mailer.if i had a church, it would!!oh, and i no longer need a family, i was fortunate enough to find one big enough by googling.

well, the page didn't have anything about copyrights on it, if that helps. we are a very small company, so not many people see the work. my boss plaguerized the brochure im doing from another brochure!

as for the copyrights, unless an actual copyright is held by the owner and it is published with the copyrighted material, anyone is free to use it. I had a lengthy discussion on this with my former roommate about a year and a half ago. He has since graduated law school. He told me that once the owner publicly disseminates an uncopyrighted image onto the internet, it is legally considered part of the public domain.

For a photograph, the copyright is created at the moment the image is developed. If a photograph is taken with a modern digital camera, the copyright originates at the time the image is saved on a computer disk or on a hard drive. As long as the work exists in tangible form or can be understood or reproduced with the aid of a machine, it is copyrighted.The Copyright Act is federal law, not state law. Consequently, the law is uniform throughout the United States. Also, since the United States has signed several international copyright agreements, copyright protection is effective essentially all over the world.

I would disagree on a finer point here, I think. It is ownership which is created at the moments that you note, not ownership exclusivity (a copyright). The government must grant you the right of exclusivity to the use of the image, and that cannot be done at those moments. If you freely give away that image, or copies of it, you cannot then claim a right to exclusive usage until the proper copyright procedures have been enacted. You own the original image, but not the rights to all copies that you have given away (or sold for the matter) until you are given the copyright.

I'd think that if you asked the source of the picture if you could use it for a church thing, they would probably say ok, then you'd be covered for any copyright issues. If they said no, then you'd have to find a different pic.