Quick question: intellectual property images / text on Tapatalk?

Hi everyone,
I was just wondering, since we you cannot edit posts on tapatalk - and I appreciate the possibility to upload images -but what happens to the images we upload? Do the authors retain the rights to their images? Can the authors have their images or texts deleted, should they choose to do so?

Everything you upload on FB becomes their property, which is why I don't use that, and I don't recommend using it for our purposes.

Hi Nils.
I see my pics all over the Internet and realized that my images can't be controlled.
I do not have many pics that I wish to keep away from the public but those that are sensitive, I simply don't share.
Watermarks like what Fred is using helps control widespread use of his property but they are so easy to defeat.
I would say the best advice is; If you don't want your image to be used without your knowledge or consent, don't post it!

My experience, trust no-one. I received an email today from someone wanting a SET of Tower handcuff keys, I asked him what he meant by a set. He said he has a picture (drawing or photo?) which show four different ones. I explained that it was likely my drawing or photo which was an academic representation of what the permutations could have been with a three lever lock with two increments.  The image had be widely disseminated with 95% of those who passed it on having little understanding of what it was and no experience to add any appropriate text to it when passing it on. And there was my S&W 94 permutations charts which some idiot altered because he was too think to understand it and then passed it along to all and sundry. Be careful if you post stuff.

Any picture of mine that I post is free game. We are all in collecting cuffs here. Anything that i provide that can help to spread the knowledge and widen the base of collectors, is fine by me. I know whats mine. Others dont have to know who owns a certain cuff, in my eyes. Just so they see that there is a version out there, in a collection somewhere, that looks like this picture. I have nothing to hide and no secrets to keep as far as cuff collecting goes. Ask me a question about my collection, i will gladly answer it. The only information that I hide from anyone is what I pay for a certain cuff. Thats not anyone's business but my own. If I ask someone what they paid for a certain cuff and they decline to answer that question, thats where my inquiry stops. I respect others wishes. Just as if I post someone's pic somewhere, and someone tells me its their pic and they dont like me posting it, i will drop that pic from my computer. That way, i dont accidentally post it again.
-Richard Knip-

NilsKrueger wrote:Hi everyone,
I was just wondering, since we you cannot edit posts on tapatalk - and I appreciate the possibility to upload images -but what happens to the images we upload? Do the authors retain the rights to their images? Can the authors have their images or texts deleted, should they choose to do so?

Everything you upload on FB becomes their property, which is why I don't use that, and I don't recommend using it for our purposes.

That's not true. If you take a photo then you have the sole copyright to that photo. If you upload it to Facebook, you agree to allow Facebook to use that photo royalty free. The reason for this, without your consent then Facebook wouldn't actually be share or distribute that photo to any other user because then it would be against copyright law to distribute the photo without the photographer's consent. 

So while you do give FB the right to distribute the photograph, you aren't actually giving up ownership of the photograph. 

My recommendation to anyone that wants to protect their photos is to put their own watermark somewhere on the pic. That way, it cant be denied, who owns what photo.
-Richard Knip-

It is super easy to delete watermarks from pictures.
Block out part of the image if you really want protection,

I didnt say where to put the watermark, did I? LOL! Most people that use watermarks, use a semi-transparent mark that goes over part of the image. So, if removed, a chunk of the image would be removed as well.  Thats kind of common knowledge with folks who choose to use watermarks, tho. If some one is going to be petty enough to take the actual time to modify and remove a watermark from a picture, that doesnt say a lot towards that person's character. Always give credit to the photographer, when the photographer is known. If you are that serious about your pics, i suggest not posting them. Once something is out on the net, it will likely get saved by someone and shared or used again, at some point. A couple of my images that I put on the web, a while ago, surface in a recent Ebay auction. I just shook my head, chuckled and scrolled on.
-Richard Knip-

Before this interesting thread started, I was thing about the possibility that the next author of a handcuff book, like Alex Nichols and Jean-Michel Robin, would have a great source of pictures from this Forum that have never been published before.

I would hope that permission would be requested, however, as a minimum credit to the owner would be published with the pictures.   

Ron

I just checked the home page of the Forum and Joe has this statement at the bottom of the page:


Unless otherwise credited all text and pictures presented on these web pages are copyrighted © 2004 by Joseph W. Lauher. All rights are reserved. Text and pictures may not be copied without permission.

Ron

That notice is for handcuffs.org, not the forum.  Forum pictures belong to the person who posts them. Assuming they own them in the first place.