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Because professional photography agencies and organizations have been rattling law suit and copyright infringement sabers, photofinishing labs are beginning to not print digital photos that they think <\/em>may have been done by professionals<\/a>. In other words, if you take a really nice, professional-looking photo with your digital camera, and send it to Walmart.com to be printed — you may be presumed a criminal and your printing denied.<\/p>\n

Amateur photographer Zee Helmick encountered that problem when she went to pick up photos she had ordered at a Wal-Mart near her home in Henderson, Nev. She had taken the photos of her son that morning to use as head shots for an audition for a TV commercial. She had used her photo-editing software to add his name, information about him and even her own copyright to make the image look more polished, Helmick said. She uploaded the 8-by-10-inch photos to Walmart.com, which prints photos sent to the site at a nearby store for customers to pick up.<\/p>\n

At the store, Helmick said a clerk told her, “We can’t release the pictures to you.”<\/p>\n

“What’s wrong?” Helmick asked.<\/p>\n

“We can’t release the pictures to you without a copyright release form signed by the photographer,” the clerk replied, according to Helmick.<\/p>\n

The clerk refused to believe her, nor would they take a signed statement saying that Helmick had taken the pictures herself.<\/p>\n

While it’s true that professional photographs can be scanned and then sent to a photo finisher to be printed — in violation of the photographer’s copyright (and I’ll be you didn’t really realize that those school photos of the kids, or the shots that the photographer took of your wedding, are actually copyrighted), the presumption that something that looks professional means that it was stolen is pernicious.<\/p>\n

The Professional Photographers of America sees education of consumers and photofinishers as key to preventing unauthorized copying. The trade group sent a wake-up call to the photofinishing industry when, in 1999, it sued Kmart Corp., alleging that the discount store violated federal copyright law by copying images without the permission of the copyright owners.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Kmart settled the case by paying $100,000 and agreeing to implement procedures to guard against the unlawful copying of professional photos.<\/p>\n

The fact is, amateurs can take — or send in for processing — much better photos than ever before, Photoshopped to look professional. And, unlike in the old days, when you’d have to send in an entire roll (or five) for processing, in the digital age, you only need send in the best.<\/p>\n

Just make sure it isn’t too much of a best. Otherwise, you may get called a crook.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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