ANNOUNCING A NEW WAY TO MARKET AND SELL FINE ART DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
The LUDF, Limited Use File
USPTO Registered
ANNOUNCING A NEW WAY TO MARKET AND SELL FINE ART DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
The LUDF, Limited Use File
USPTO Registered
About LUDF Photography
Definition and use of a LUDF (Limited Use Digital File)
Over the past 100 years photography has evolved from being only considered as a documentary medium to now being worthy as a fine art. In the early days only black and white archival photographic prints were considered appropriate. This has slowly changed with the advent of color with offset printing, silk screening, blue printing, and dye-transfer processes. With the advent of digital photographic processes photography has fully entered the fine art world with unlimited expressive opportunities for the photographic artist.
Technologist advances in printmaking now allow for a wide range of prints on paper, canvas, metals, plastic, and glass beyond what any photographer can produce in his or her own laboratory. Every city in the country now has professional labs that can produce archival prints. It is no longer necessary for fine-art digital photographers to market and sell their own prints.
I have recently received approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a new trademark called: LUDF or Limited Use Digital File (UPTO # 97832889).
I now use it to market and sell my fine art digital photographic composition on my web site: https://davidwillisphotographer.com
A Limited Use Digital File (LUDF) is a full resolution copy of the original TIFF or JPEG file of a digital photographic composition that a fine art digital photographer has produced. The LUDF file is to be sold to a customer to produce their own prints, email messages, web-based presentations, print and book publications and for any other personal or corporate purpose. Changes to the LUDF file by a customer are permitted for adjustments of scale, resolution, brightness, contrast, and color as might be needed to adjust a customer’s prints. However, no alterations of a LUDF file per subject matter and compositional elements are permitted by a customer as these are immutable or un-changeable and are protected by copyright by the artist.
Products that are produced with a LUDF file by a customer can be sold to secondary customers, but the LUDF file itself cannot be re-sold to a second party as it is a copy of the copyrighted file retained by the artist.
Individual fine art digital photographers who wish to sell their work with the LUDF trademark have my full permission to do so.
Non-profit photographic museums and galleries who want to market and sell LUDF files of digital compositions produced by artists in their collections also have my full permission to use this concept if the individual artists in their collections give their permission.