Clients printing images without permission from screen shots

cgipson1 · Feb 3, 2012

^^THIS! (Dakkon.. you are a nicer person than I am!)

i would just send Guido to talk them!

aohara2001 · Feb 3, 2012

When I post proofs to my client gallery I watermark the middle image with a copyright. This is an unfortunate situation, the best you can do is learn from it and change your proofing method. You could sue, but that's not worth the friendship. Just change your future proofs to have a watermark in the MIDDLE of the image.

Joey_Ricard · Feb 3, 2012

aohara2001 said:
When I post proofs to my client gallery I watermark the middle image with a copyright. This is an unfortunate situation, the best you can do is learn from it and change your proofing method. You could sue, but that's not worth the friendship. Just change your future proofs to have a watermark in the MIDDLE of the image.

Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

dakkon76 · Feb 3, 2012

I have to admit though... if I *had* charged one of my friends for something like this, and they knowingly circumvented me the way this person had... I'd write them off as a piece of sh*t and that would be the end of it

Again... don't put yourself in that kind of situation with people you like. I know a few people that would act like this, and of the few I know I wouldn't say I consider any of them a friend.

cgipson1 · Feb 4, 2012

dakkon76 said:
I have to admit though... if I *had* charged one of my friends for something like this, and they knowingly circumvented me the way this person had... I'd write them off as a piece of sh*t and that would be the end of it Again... don't put yourself in that kind of situation with people you like. I know a few people that would act like this, and of the few I know I wouldn't say I consider any of them a friend.

Ahhh.... you are a King fan? (just noticed your sig! Appropriate for this thread! lol! ) Good stuff!

raider · Feb 5, 2012

yes, education - i scare them real good at the contract signing where it states the massive punishments for such activity.

DiskoJoe · Feb 6, 2012

rub said:
I went to a client / friends house for coffee the other day. As we were chatting, I noticed a horribly pixilated crappy framed image from her last session. It was a maternity shoot/family shoot with her bf's sister, husband and kid as well. When she saw me notice the picture she said, oh yeah, sister in law gave me that.

I said "I'm sorry you have such a poor quality print - SIL must have saved her screen and then cropped it. In the new year we can order you a professional print if you like." It's still upsetting me. They haven't purchased any of the images yet, even though everytime I see them they say they loved them.

How would you handle the same situation?

watermark across the face! Print that *****!

Stickymoose · Sep 7, 2014

I work in a photo lab, it is frustrating, and hard to stop these people. Our lab won't give copies of anything without a release form.people will bring in water marked, Bella baby, or pixelated stuff to try and print, and we end up fighting over it. Some photographers don't understand that they have to give written permission to clients to print legally.