Photos photos everywhere

Thought I should vaguely announce that I've put up photos of January's Wendy House at http://technomancer.me.uk/image/tid/154 and photos of the in-character pub-meet at http://leeds.scifi.me.uk/v/larp/ic-pubmeet/

I'm way to lazy to post my photos to every social networking site that I've been press-ganged into joining. I shouldn't have to. I also disapprove of the lack awareness of usage rights that plagues such places. Ok, so the all your content are belong to us approach of Myspace was given the boot after Billy Bragg complained, and most sites will display the username of the person who uploaded the photo, but very few places outside of wikipedia allow a licence to be attached to an image or make provision for naming the copyright holder. When I ran a photo gallery for a friend a while back, we ended up at scene party and we watched people busy showing off photos on their facebooks of people on the scene. And all the while said friend was approaching meltdown as she'd taken most of the photos and posted them on her website under a CC-BY license.  Not an single user of her photos had managed to acknowledge where the photos came from or the licence they were available under. 

So here I am watermarking the reasonable-resolution versions of my photos and deliberately holding back anything remotely high resolution because I want my pictures to stay free. Something's gone badly wrong with the world. But If I want my images to be shared then why am making noise about it? Because I want people to know I'm sharing my work with anyone who'll appreciate it either as it is, or to make new shared works out of. Because I'd like to see more stuff explicitly shared. And I want people to know who took the photos I took, yeah a lot of them are really bad, but some of them might be ok. There's maybe 20 photos that I've taken in my entire life that I think are any good, and I'm proud of them. I might even want to here the smart-ass say "have you tried doing this with scenes like that". I might even want to be able to hand out a hard copy at a resolution many times that of what's practical to share online. And I'd like people to know there's more to creative rights than "Copyright me, all rights reserved".

What do people think? Am I blowing this all out of proportion? Does anybody actually read the 'if you want to use my work' bootnote on a site before re-posting pictures? Is anyone offended by by insistence that my work is somehow traceable back to me?

If you want to use my photos then go for it, but remember the the Ts & Cs: All my photos are available under the Creative Commons Attribution + Share Alike license.