Kodak imposes copyright
For Christmas I ordered some photo prints (original photos, taken by me) from an online mail-order service. The quality was great, and they arrived 2 days after submitting the order, but one thing bugged me about them – on the back of each photo was a watermark from Kodak, advertising that this photo has been printed on “Kodak ProfessionalEnduro ” paper (fine by me if they print that on there – that way I’ll know for future reference if I want to have that paper again!), but also some blurb about copyright:
“Professional images are copyright protected”
“Do not copy”
It’s the second one which really bothers me – how does Kodak presume to know whether I want this image copyright protected or not, and more over presume to know that I don’t want it to be copied! I guess that most photographers are indifferent or happy about these texts printed on the reverse of their photographs, but I see it as a part of the sickness of the current trend of copyrighting everything, and for ever – whether it makes sense or not!
January 19th, 2010 at 12:46
You’ll have to order the really cheap photo prints next time – they only write that on the high-quality prints!