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 Just a question about copyright:
Your pictures are watermarked, right. But what would you do if you come accross somebody using your pictures for a commercial purpose ?
 On which basis would you sue him? Is this watermarking usable in a trial? Is this recognized a an evidence for a trial in all/most countries?

[Andy]

what would you do if you come across somebody using your pictures for a commercial purpose

I would send them an invoice for a market-rate fee depending on how they used my image. Then I would expect they would either stop using the image/pay or come to some other mutually agreeable arrangement. It's unlikely that lawyers would ever be involved except in extreme cases such as my images were packaged in another commercial product.

The invisible watermark is a great deterant on it's own I think.

[SensoVision]

Oh well; I have yammered long enough and pretty much forgotten what I was talking about in the first place.

Bob, thank you for great post! you've remind one again most important thing to us that good shot is created not by camera but photographer...
BTW here is article which try to convince people that equipment doesn't matter, maybe it would be interesting to someone:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm
And thanks for sharing your secrets, it's cool to hear them from first hands and you've really opened my eyes for many things I didn't mention before.

Just a question about copyright:
Your pictures are watermarked, right. But what would you do if you come accross somebody using your pictures for a commercial purpose ?
 On which basis would you sue him? Is this watermarking usable in a trial? Is this recognized a an evidence for a trial in all/most countries?

I think you would be amazed how many people ask for permission of using photo, at least I was I'm sure that reputable company would respect your rights for photograph and wouldn't break it. Anyway if you found your photo used without permission you can do it like Andy, at least it wouldn't involve any more expenses.