Nominative Fair Use of Trademarks

I have pursued copyright infringement multiple times. It is an unfortunate requirement in a field where we must display our work on the internet to remain competitive. I get all the usual responses and threats, but I ultimately get my desired outcome. Over the course of time I have grown confident and knowledgeable about copyright [...]


Author: Walter Rowe | Category: Business, Legal | Comments(0) January 2009

Prevent Hotlinks To Your Images

Hotlinking is when another website tries to include an image hosted on your website in their web page via “<IMG></IMG>” tags. This is a form of image theft and copyright infringement where they are using your intellectual property without your permission. I have included code similar to this sample code below in the .htaccess file [...]


Author: Walter Rowe | Category: Business, Legal, Security | Comments(0) July 2008

Why I Don’t Post Photographs on Facebook

I am a professional photographer. As such, I depend on license fees I collect from people who wish to use my copyrighted work. The more ways in which they desire to use my work, the higher the license fee. Such is the way for all intellectual property licensing.
The reason I don’t post my copyrighted photographs [...]


Author: Walter Rowe | Category: Business, Legal, Social Networks | Comments(3) July 2008

Bryan Rowe CD Cover

Baltimore composer and organist Bryan Rowe (no relation to me that we know of yet) released a new CD of live organ music called LIVE!. Portraits I took for him grace the cover and full page inside left and right of the CD jacket. The music is exceptional and the artwork turned out great. Here [...]


Author: Walter Rowe | Category: Legal, Music, Publicity | Comments(0) June 2008

Help Stop Orphan Works Legislation

There are currently two bills before Congress called the “Orphan Works” bills. One is before the House of Representatives and the other is before the Senate. Both bills have moved out of committee and are being prepared for debate before their full body of Congress. The Senate’s version is worse the the House’s version. Both [...]


Author: Walter Rowe | Category: Legal | Comments(2) May 2008