I hope to get some advice, especially from photographers who have experienced this.
I intend to make a huge canvas print. So I need to give the printing shop a very high resolution image to maintain print quality.
My friend cautioned me that it's better to ask the shop to sign some kind of form to say that I'm the copyright owner of that image, in case the shop chooses to use it without my permission in future.
That sets me thinking...
Well, it's not that my shot is award-winning, but decent enough to use commercially. Photographers have been wary of people leeching their images on the Internet. And there've been too many cases of pictures being "stolen" blatantly even by the press without giving proper acknowledgement to the rightful photographer.
So I'm wondering, in my case, since I'm giving to the shop a direct copy of the image, should I be extra careful and make the shop sign a form to state that they cannot use my image? It sounds like being paranoid to me, but thinking further with the above points, it may make sense. Not sure if the shop will be offended though....
I intend to make a huge canvas print. So I need to give the printing shop a very high resolution image to maintain print quality.
My friend cautioned me that it's better to ask the shop to sign some kind of form to say that I'm the copyright owner of that image, in case the shop chooses to use it without my permission in future.
That sets me thinking...
Well, it's not that my shot is award-winning, but decent enough to use commercially. Photographers have been wary of people leeching their images on the Internet. And there've been too many cases of pictures being "stolen" blatantly even by the press without giving proper acknowledgement to the rightful photographer.
So I'm wondering, in my case, since I'm giving to the shop a direct copy of the image, should I be extra careful and make the shop sign a form to state that they cannot use my image? It sounds like being paranoid to me, but thinking further with the above points, it may make sense. Not sure if the shop will be offended though....