[MR] SCA photos

[Lydia Leovic]

Your Grace, et. al.,

As someone who enjoys taking and sharing photos at SCA events and for related SCA purposes, there is still a good deal of personal time required, even in the digital age, to organize and upload pictures, let alone take a decent shot.

While someone who paid money to attend an SCA event might not want to later pay for their photo, which is their perrogative, the flipside to this situation is that the photos shared online are not implicitly free for the taking--despite the fact that technology would make it seem so--especially if one wants to re-publish that photo on another website.  Giving the photographer a photo credit at the very least, is simply common courtesy.  

I always appreciate it when people ask me for permission to republish a photo I have taken, and all I ask for in return is a photo credit.

Of course there is no real way to police whether someone has copied another photographer's original work and not at least given them a photo credit, but a habit of not doing so illustrates to me a disregard for the value of someone else's "intellectual property." (I am not a copyright lawyer, just trying to make a point.)

My only strategy to protect my photos is to not publish full-size digital photos on the internet.  If someone wants a quality print, they need to at least ask me for the original file, which I am typically willing to share.

Many people have expressed to me that they enjoy seeing the photos I take at events, and I am happy to share these.  Their thanks is the reward.

YIS,
Lidia de Ragusa



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