Copyright

I sent this picture of Chloee into Walmart to have them printed up yesterday. I normally would send them away to a professional printing company but I needed them sooner. I went to Walmart this morning to pick them up. As I gave them my name, they proceeded to tell me that I couldn't have them, I needed permission from the photographer to release the prints.

Me: "I am the photographer!"

Walmart Photo Man: "Um... These look professional."

Me: "Well thanks, but they're still MINE." (I was in my pj's still and I looked the farthest thing away from presentable but still...)

Walmart Photo Man: "So what kind of camera do you have?" (Obviously trying to catch me in a lie.)

Me: "A Nikon D40X, you know a digital SLR camera? Is that alright with you?"

Walmart Photo Man: "Oh, so have you taken any classes and where?"

Me: "These are my pictures and I'd like to have them now!"

Walmart Photo Man: "Well you are going to have to sign this copyright paper saying that you are the photographer and that you are releasing the pictures to yourself and giving permission for you to have prints done here."

Me: "Let me get this straight... I am signing a release form to myself as the photographer?"

Walmart Photo Man: "Yes and if you really are not the photographer, by signing this document you can be arrested for fraud."

Me: "Well, unless I turn on myself, I guess I'll be good."

I was flattered that all of this happened. I'm not going to lie, it boosted my ego. Before it sounds like I am tooting my own horn, which it totally sounds like I am doing, I just wanted to share this funny story and have it in my blog. After all this blog is for me, no one else and it is like a journal to me and that is why I post what I do. I might go to a private blog here soon, we'll see!
HOPE YOU ENJOY!