As a professional photographer, copyright is essential to your livelihood, providing the legal basis for protecting the value of your pictures. The value of that copyright, however, depends upon the legal tools that you and your agency use to protect it. These tools are especially important in the digital age, where technology makes it easy for users to copy and distribute your images.
We are proud of our efforts to defend our photographers' copyrights against infringement. Our registration process provides photographers with the best legal protection of their copyright and provides a basis for protection when distributing their previously published but unregistered images. As we all face the new challenges of an increasingly digital world, Corbis will continue to work with its photographers to lead the industry down the path of protection.
This site highlights the legal tools available to protect your images, and describes how we use these tools in our copyright registration program.
A note to non-U.S. photographers: if you ever need to enforce your copyright in the United States—where most buying, selling, and infringing of photographs occurs—your legal options will be severely limited if you haven’t registered your work with the U.S. Copyright Office. This web site contains valuable information for you about U.S. copyright laws and Corbis’ practices.
