image copyright symbol questions

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  jerryandloisphotography · Member · Oct 1, 2008 at 2:22 am

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  Another set of questions (this really is a great forum!)

  This again involves uploading images created by photographers (ourselves) concerned about copyright and photo credit notices. It only takes a few of your photos being claimed by someone else to get you riled up and paranoid!

  1. The copyright symbol in our metadata (which survives until resizing) gets permuted into another character. I have to manually replace this char (a black solid diamond with a white question mark in the center). This is showing up just after uploading a file (via “add media”, in the description field of the image). Example: “� Jerry and Lois Levin, Creative Indulgence” I’d much rather have a nice little © instead. Is there a way to make this work?

  2. Alternatively – I don’t speak CSS, but can read the code. Is there some kind of CSS statement or record that can “wrap” all my images with the alt text to simply have our copyright notice? That way I don’t have to manually update every file we upload (of which there will be many).

  Thanks!
  Jerry

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  jerryandloisphotography · Member · Oct 1, 2008 at 4:15 am

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  Freshing – we’re in the midst of trying to upload some 50 images starting tonight, so hoping that someone may know the answer to item #1…

  thanks!
  j

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 1, 2008 at 4:17 am

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  If someone who was already here knew, they’d have answered. I’ve never seen the first question before, so I can’t help with that. As for the second question, probably although I don’t know anyone who’s tried it since the new caption code went in. I just strip out the caption codes, myself.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 1, 2008 at 4:45 am

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  It’s the ascii code or whatever used in the meta for the copyright symbol isn’t being recognized by the browsers or isn’t in the fonts/character sets used. I’ve seen this quite a lot actually on the web where apostrophes, quotes and such aren’t rendered correctly and the diamond with the question mark shows up.

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 1, 2008 at 8:09 am

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  The only thing I can think of is to make sure whatever program you are using to write the metadata and your blog’s encoding are the same. In your blog’s Dashboard under Settings>Reading>Encoding. UTF-8 is the recommended encoding.

  Come to think of it, this may not solve the problem depending on the computer reading the metadata. Best then to add the word “Copyright” as well and not just the symbol. If it’s any consolation, the copyright symbol comes through correctly in the two programs I have that can read metadata and English is not the primary language on my computer.

  In order to see the metadata, I had to download and open the photo in one of those programs, and unfortunately metadata is easy enough to strip out of an image; keep using the watermark. Just sayin’…