Introduction to Microstock Photography – Copyrights and Trademarks
In this post I will begin to discuss the types of things that will result in a rejection. There are a number of things that will result in a rejection that include
- Copyrights
- Noise
- Focus
- Framing
- Bad lighting
- Not stock worthy
- Similar images
- Releases
Over the next several posts I will discuss all of these in depth. At the end of this series I will include a number of sample images. Today, however, I will touch on the extremely lengthy subject of copyright protection. I will begin by saying that this is an extremely complicated subject that I know little about. For instance, I’m not exactly sure what the differences are between trademarks and copyrights. However, I suspect that most of us don’t really care. What we do care about is whether we can sell a given picture. Therefore I will simplify this discussion into what you can sell photographs of, and what you cannot.