The American Society of Media Photographers encourages registration of all photographs with the Copyright Office prior to publication to ensure that the full weight of the law is behind you. The ASMP points out that registering work enables you (the copyright owner) to ask for statutory damages and attorney fees if you win an infringement case along with other benefits.
In the video below I walk through the steps in their Best Practices for Registration guide using a digital asset management system.
Registering Photos with the US Copyright Office using digital asset management
Thanks for sharing how Portfolio can be used to help automate this process. However, unless the plan is to keep your image files with the name given during the batch renaming, it would be better to use a filenmaing convention that would make sense for managing your own image collection.
In addition, renaming the ZIP files with blank spaces will likely cause the recipient system to fill those in with a %20 (if on a unix/linux webserver). Better to use a hypen or underscore as a “best practice.” More than you might wish to know can be found on the filenaming pages at http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/filenaming.html
Hope that helps.
David
Hi David, thanks for the comment and link to the file naming best practices article.
Good point about the %20 problem, which I also talk about in my file naming best practices guide. I’m curious about your thoughts if you have a moment to read and comment: http://www.damlearningcenter.com/street-smarts/file-naming-best-practices-for-digital-asset-management/