licensing can apply to any intellectual property. Hear is the license I list with my website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/Originally Posted by Don
it says fair rights are not effected but fair rights takes into account the nature of the copyrighted work, which having that license that spells it out give you legal backing. At least it did with a few court cases.
This kind of stuff is more situational anyways. I mean what type of situation are we trying to protect from?
Someone using the picture to scam someone? They are committing fraud anyways, we really aren't protecting much. The watermark might stop people, but there are enough pictures out there that they will find one anyways, so your picture wasn't used.... big deal, the crime still is attempted.
Someone using it on their website? well they will more than likely fall under fair use, who uses a picture not for educational purposes? I guess if they put it on there just as page decoration or claiming it is their animal they would be in violation.
Is there some situation I'm not seeing?
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