Old Oak Tree. Kinder Wood. Hayfield. Kinder Reservoir and Kinder Scout in background
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Intellectual Property Office (IPO)- Photography
IPO on Photographs
"Photographs, digital or on film, are protected by copyright as artistic works. The exact rules relating to copyright in photographs vary according to the law which was in place at the time the photograph was taken."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/27/how_to_copyright_michelangelo/
Conclusions:
Put your signature on your work in the form of a copyright notice
when you post to the web
Put a large © Copyright Watermark and Proof notice into the
image when you let clients have proof copies
Use Copyright Rollovers on your website.
If you do not place any value on your work do not expect others
to value it!