What would you do if you noticed that someone was using your photographs without your permission? What’s the correct way to protect your images, so you can increase the chances of collecting should someone deliberately steal your pictures? When can you legally photograph strangers in public? The answers to these questions might be more nuanced than you think.

In our March 2012 Free Photo Webinars, we focus on copyright law and the photographers’ rights with Phil Marcus. 

Although Phil Marcus is a serious amateur photographer, his profession is law, and specifically protecting creatives through copyright law.  He is a graduate of MIT (S.B. and S.M. in Electrical Engineering).  He also has a J.D. from the University of Maryland Law School.  Mr. Marcus was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1973 and the Supreme Court bar in 1977.

He has specialized the past half dozen years in various aspects of intellectual property law.  These include copyrights, trademarks, patent licensing and trade secrets.  He has handled matters of both registration and infringement (from viewpoints of both owners of IP and alleged infringers).  

Phil has been teaching adults since he was in grad school in the 1960s, including four years as a full time college instructor.  He has given seminars for almost ten years to professional groups, various chambers of commerce and MIT alumni groups.

You can read more about Phil at www.youripattorney.com.