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So if the copyright symbol can be taken out...why can't the copyright symbol be added in, so maybe it reads something like this:

More images from this artist and copyright ©:    and then the artists name with the link to their port.  This still may not be the correct way the contributor wants his copyright published, as a lot of photographers do not use their name as their account name, but it sure would be better than having the agency/partner name in there.

Good work Cathy!  Sounds like your efforts are the reason that we don't have to worry about this.  Please convey my thanks to Cammie. 

OMG THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING!!!!!  Here's a photo of mine on Snapfish.  My photo has 19 keywords.  It's a hockey player on ice with a stick and puck in front of the net.  Look at what has happened to the keywords: 

Child, Sports, Play, Vertical, Activity, Sports, People, boys, male, boy, young, person, caucasian, sport, life, mask, game, children, childhood, stick, ice, youth, athlete, playing, twig, sticks, helmet, activities, clothes, icy, equipment, Team sports, twigs, games, Ethnicity, Caucasians, Males, helmets, ice rink, clothing, Concept, hockey, concepts, persons, recreational actions, life stages, life stage, ethnicities and nationalities, nationality, ethnicity and nationality, athletics, Athletic Activity, white people, White ethnicity, head coverings, head covering, team sport, athletic, athletes, sports facilities, athleticism, sports facility, sports venue, sports venues, ice rinks, skating rink, skating rinks, protective clothing, protective gear, protective clothes, protective equipment, focus techniques, focus technique, protective headgear, masks

I'm not saying I approve of the ones I haven't bolded either, most of them are MAYBE 5% applicable to the photo.  Jeeze, real agencies suspend people with keywords like this.  I'm afraid to look for more.


Not to mention - has anyone ever taken a look at their keywords on the Veer site itself.  Prepare yourself to be shocked.  Why do they f*ck around with these things? ? ?  Am I not paying them about 70% on every sale of MY photos, not THEIRS?  I have photos of figure skaters where they have removed the keywords "figure skater" altogether!!!  A girl on figure skates, in a short twinkly costume but she is no longer a figure skater.   

I guess you don't have to worry about if you don't want to, but if my images were staying up on Veer, Media Bakery, snapfish and photogenica, I would NOT be happy that all of my IPTC data has been stripped, and those partners can put anything they like on their sites. For instance, snapfish still shows my copyright this way: © snapfish / cathyslife. As I said earlier, there is NO WAY IN HE11 the word snapfish should be anywhere near the © mark. If they can input the copyright symbol and cathyslife, they can certainly leave out the snapfish, but it doesn't look like they choose to. photogenica has it © cathyslife / Veer / Photogenica. That is unacceptable as far as I am concerned. I'm the only copyright holder, and by these companies putting this on their sites just creates a lot of confusion. Just makes proof of ownership all that more difficult to prove, IMHO.