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General Stock Discussion / Re: Selling pictures from your own site?
« on: May 14, 2009, 08:32 »
Thanks for your feedback. We've been evaluating the watermark issue since we began. The vast majority of photos that are added to ClusterShot are from Flickr or RSS feeds from other galleries. These photos are mostly punlicly available at larger resolutions than we are displaying so to watermark them seems a little silly.
The other thing that is coming into play is that we're open source and "free internet" kind of people. We try to not operate out of fear of things being stolen. We've always found watermarking to be annoying when we have to implement it or work with it as designers and we assume most other people (buyers) do too.
Do you feel that watermarking really provides that much protection? Do you think it works or is it just for photographers peace of mind?
If we get enough push back and convincing arguments we would consider building an opt-in watermarking feature.
The other thing that is coming into play is that we're open source and "free internet" kind of people. We try to not operate out of fear of things being stolen. We've always found watermarking to be annoying when we have to implement it or work with it as designers and we assume most other people (buyers) do too.
Do you feel that watermarking really provides that much protection? Do you think it works or is it just for photographers peace of mind?
If we get enough push back and convincing arguments we would consider building an opt-in watermarking feature.
