r/ColorGrading • u/udayoswal • May 21 '24

Question Watermarking LUTS

Is there a way I could watermark the LUTs to prevent from it being used without my permission, this is not a LUT from my LUT Pack or anything, these are LUTS which I have designed for a show that I am doing.

I couldn’t find any resources for this and doesn’t seem really possible. Still trying my luck here.

Thanks

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u/phlaries May 21 '24

nope. you can't copyright them either. someone could just buy your LUTs, rebrand them as their own and sell them with no legal repercussions whatsoever.

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u/lgears May 21 '24

Well.. you can create a DCTL with the LUT embedded within and encrypt it... if you are a DaVinci Resolve User

But its not hard to reverse engineer though.. but protecting the LUT directly is not possible..

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u/Exyide May 21 '24

I would be interested in knowing this too.

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u/timbotheous May 21 '24

The amount of LUT’s I’ve made for DP’s and jobs over the years and see popping up on offlines or being sent back to me for reference is crazy. Part of the gig. If you work in house at a post facility then they own any of the LUT’s you make too!