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Walmart Photo Processing Copyright Farce

If you take photographs that look remotely professional expect to have some trouble getting them processed at your local supermarket. Check out the trouble this Flickr user had in the Flickr 100 years old group thread!

Several times I have heard of people attempting to get (family) photos copied at Wal-Mart and refused because they were “copyrighted” – because they were made by a photograph studio. Even if the person who OWNS the copyright were to ask a Wal-Mart photo manager to copy it, they would refuse. They misinterpret the word “copyright” to mean “copywrong,” That is to say: Copy?….. wrong!

In a way I guess it is tricky for the Walmart employee. They have a blanket policy and risk a reprimand (or worse) for breaking it, even if it makes no sense. Walmarts aren’t about to provide copyright training. The answer I guess is if you can use a proper outfit, print out a “release” on headed paper or scan and print it yourself.

Comedy Update:

Heh, couldn’t resist adding this.

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Digital Prints from Flickr, Now International

This might be worth a try, FlickrBlog says Flickr now offers the rest of the world the QOOP printing service. Really dumb thing is you still can’t do it right from the flickr site

So, you aren’t in the U.S. Darn it! Unfortunately, this means you aren’t able to prints your photos via Flickr yet.

This means that until Flickr guys get the interface sorted out you have to go to http://www.qoop.com. Their prices look pretty good, they have a great range of products and sizes and the interface is really quite nice (especially being able to select by “sets”, etc).

I’m going to order a photo book to try it out.

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