Last week I received a request from the owner of this aircraft asking to buy photos.
I happily and freely sent him my original images including some that I didn't post. I don't know how often this has happened to me.
This week I received a request from an individual asking for my phone number and address. The message came through the A-D's contact a photographer link and not the link that includes a reference to a specific photo. Since the individual's name was in the email I was able use www.faa.gov aircraft registration owner name query and I came to the conclusion that it might be this photo that is of interest to this person.
This photo just happened to be on of several hundred that I took this day at the Anoka County Airport on its Blaine Aviation Days event.
After asking why this individual wanted my contact information, he stated that it was about copywriting a photograph of his airplane and he wanted to do this in hard copy letter format.
I think this individual's inquiry is about copyrighting the photos that we submit to this website, although I suspect it is just this one photo. I believe the copyright notice are being added to the photos that we submit to this site primarily to prevent abusive users from copying photos from this website and posted them to other websites. As I recall it was abuses at www.flightaware.com that prompted the water marking of photos here.
Again, if this individual's concern is about copyrighting, I'm wondering if we could have an upload option for public domain? or Maybe better yet would be to use a Creative Commons license that allows a wide variety of less restrictive copyright notices. For myself I only care about Attribution if somebody else want to use one of my photos. Creative Commons also has non commercial, No Derivative Works license options, and a Share-alike copyright licenses which include certain copyleft provisions. And there is quite a few combinations of Attribution+non-commercial, etc. A Creative Commons Copyright license can also be used in conjunction with commercial licensing arrangements.
Speaking only for myself, if someone asks me for original images I freely give them. Over the five years that I have contributed to this site I had only one other request to remove a photo. I think I'm at 5 requests to publish in magazines or books.