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When you upload an image you can select to claim copyright over it.
But you have to do it for each and every image?
Any way to click an "All" button rather than each individual pic?
Cheers!

I think we have had talks about that in the past and the reason given was that making it "too" easy to claim copyright might lead to more people claiming copyright over stuff that they don't own.

Legally, I don't think there is much to the button. I'm pretty sure that having it set on "no" when you submit doesn't actually mean that you relinquish the copyright.

This used to be the default as d-usa says, but it got spammed to hell with people ignoring it and claiming copyright on loads of things, thereby upsetting the real creative folks who made the images in the first place. We default to be slightly less convenient so that our database remains a little cleaner now.

Ok I have a question on the copyright, and if its ok I'll just ask here than make an entirely new thread.

If I take a picture of something I didn't create, but the picture was taken by my hand, is the copyright mine of the owner's? My example being a particular gallery of mine. I took a trip to Warhammer World a few years ago and took pics of some minis. Does the copyright pertain to the actual image (regardless of content and making it mine) or the contents of the image (making Copyright GW's)?

 Deadshot wrote:
Ok I have a question on the copyright, and if its ok I'll just ask here than make an entirely new thread.

If I take a picture of something I didn't create, but the picture was taken by my hand, is the copyright mine of the owner's? My example being a particular gallery of mine. I took a trip to Warhammer World a few years ago and took pics of some minis. Does the copyright pertain to the actual image (regardless of content and making it mine) or the contents of the image (making Copyright GW's)?

Many laws are written about this and even more lawyers get rich arguing either side of it.

Most of the time (at least based on US law as far as I understand it and I am far from being a lawyer) it would come down to this and assumes that the picture was not created as a 'work for hire':

The person who actually created the pictures retains the copyright over the picture itself. Any picture I take is mine and mine alone.
Any trademarks or items that are covered under the copyright of another person remain with the person who actually owns the copyright.
Any people in the picture retain control over their own likeness.

So if I take a picture of Robin Williams playing with his Eldar army inside a Games Workshop I could end up with all the following issues and ownerships:

I own the actual picture that I took.
Robin Williams owns the rights to his likeness in the picture.
Games Workshop retains the copyright to the Eldar in the picture and the Trademarks to any of their signage (boxes, posters, etc) that I might have captured in the picture.

So at a minimum we have three different people that can claim varying levels of ownership and control over that picture.

Now you add in laws about fair use, commercial use, etc etc etc and you get a giant headache and what you can do with your picture depends on what you want to actually do with it.

But in a nutshell (as far as I know, I am not a lawyer, and I don't know if it matters that the picture is taken in the UK but I assume that the laws might be pretty similar): The picture is yours, you own the copyright, but what you can actually do with it might vary.