How to copyright in my Nikon D5300 camera?
How to copyright in my Nikon D5300 camera? - 1
I'm assuming you are asking about the pictures you plan to take with your camera, not the camera itself.
Whenever you snap a photo, it's already copyrighted to you. In the United States and most other countries, copyright exists as soon as a photograph is produced in tangible, fixed, form.
You don't need to register your photo with your nation's copyright office for your copyright to be valid. Registration proves that you own the copyright and provides certain benefits if it were to become necessary to enforce your copyright through the courts. However, formal registration is usually a waste of time and money for a photographer unless you happen to capture a photo that becomes a subject of exceptional public interest and thereby becomes a very valuable asset to own and protect.
If you use Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, look under File in the menu and then File Info. There you'll find the existing EXIF info about the image as well copyright info and other fields that you can fill out. This data is saved with the image. If you don't use Photoshop, many other photo editing programs, including some smartphone editing apps, allow you to do the same thing.
Be aware that when you upload or copy photos from place to place the EXIF data may not be transferred, depending on what method or software/app that you use.
I'm assuming you want the camera to record the copyright information in the EXIF data - so far as I can see, you can't.
I know the kind of feature that you mean to put your name as copyright owner into Exif data. My Olympus E-PL3 and Canon G7x have that. I'm not sure about the new Nikons.
In my Nikon D90, Setup menu has Image Comment. I use that to put my name into data of every file.
Unlike the D550d, which allows you to embed the author and copyright details in each photo as you go, the 5100 and 5300 only allow you to enter it in the "comment" in the camera.
Obviously, after you upload photos to another general purpose computer, you can use all sorts of apps to tag them or embed copyright sybols, or watermarks, or whatever, but that's clearly not what you're asking.
Only certain Nikon camera bodies have the copyright notice available in their menu.
You have an entry level digital SLR, so you are going to have to use the ": Image Comment" in your menu and enter the following: See page 55 to see where in the menu this option is located
"(c) 2016, Your Name, All Rights Reserved"
Why bother?
You automatically own copyright on any image you make.
When I worked for a Wedding Photographer he had me stamp all his wedding shots with his address. He had told me you take your Company to the Copyright Company and pay them some money and then put the year and address on the back of all the photographs and this is how you copyright your photographs!
Read the manual. There should be a way to include your name in the EXIF data.
You can't set up the D5300 to automatically embed copyright information within the exif data of the file. The D5500 has this can, but not the D5300.
You would need to use an app such as Lightroom which allows you to add copyright information to the exif data. Not sure if it'll allow you to change the exif data on any file though. Ultimately, if you shoot RAW and only upload JPEGs to the internet, then you and you alone should be the only people with the RAW version of any given photo. Therefore, you would be able to prove ownership of the copyright for any of your images.
There's also third-party software that embeds copyright within the file that can't be altered. This should give you some good info
I did see a Comment Field in my D5300. Can't I just enter Copyright (c) 2017 there? Is that legal, or do I have to wait until I'm sitting at a computer to enter it in another field?
The copyright setting can be set on d5300. I also have nikon d5300. But the other photographer had changed authors in my nikon d5300. I don't know how he did it.
How do I put my name on pictures with Nikon 5300?