Dear Bob ... Could you recommend a good resource, web site, book, chat room, et al, where I can review or discuss options in copyrighting my written and particularly my photographic works. People want to purchase and use my photos for publication, but I prefer that be limited, based on whatever options are common and in common sense.Rephrasing, I'd like to be able to succinctly overview the variety of options th Dear Bob …Could you recommend a good resource, web site, book, chat room, et al, where I can review or discuss options in copyrighting my written and particularly my photographic works. People want to purchase and use my photos for publication, but I prefer that be limited, based on whatever options are common and in common sense.Rephrasing, I’d like to be able to succinctly overview the variety of options that are available to me for providing my work, yet limiting it’s use, while retaining my rights for other applications. – Picturing successDear Picture … I’m far from an expert on this subject. If hiring an IP attorney is beyond your means, the best advice I have is to visit several on-line photo sources to see what strategies they use. The one or two times I’ve used one – quite some time ago, so my memory isn’t fresh – I seem to recall that most provide downloadable photos that have superimposed logos. This makes the downloads usable for evaluation but useless for commercial, or even display use. When you decide to buy you indicate acceptance of license terms, very much like in a software license, and get the download (or, I imagine, you pay, provide shipping information, and receive a printed photo). This gets me to a more important point, or at least one that will be of interest to non-photographers as well: Some people seem to think it’s cheating to see how their competitors handle situations – if you don’t come up with an idea yourself, the thought process goes, then you shouldn’t get to use it. Smart businesspeople grab every idea that isn’t nailed down to use wherever they fit. And they do everything they can to keep up with how their competitors are winning business, too. A long time ago there was a saying: “Macy’s shops Gimbel’s; Gimbel’s shops Macy’s.” Macy’s is still around, too – I guess they did more shopping. – Bob ——– Technology Industry