Thank you very much Val for your clarification of this grevious matter
I said would contact Mary by PM to give her the information on the copyright programme that I have previously used,
but having also received an email from another keen photographer asking for details .I though I would initially post some
information here. The programme is cleverly called "copyright left" and the author has a pretty descriptive website at:-
http://www.lunerouge.org/gnu/crl_e.htm
He shows this sample there

and you can download a free zipfile of 799 kb called
copyrightleft.zip which will install
CopyRightLeft 0.4 Beta
(C) 2002 by Lionel P. Allorge
in the included "readme" file he says
"This program will help you add a copyright bar on or under a picture.
There is a batch mode to process several files at once."
Using it takes a little trial and error
but the opening default setting easily allows for a simple copyright line in an added black bar
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the bar color can be changed in colour and depth allowing for the creative addition of text whether descriptive
Or a warning request and/or demand

i hope that helps
John Fowles
i also notice that there are options to use any font that is on your computer and to add the bar and text orientated
vertically but I have failed so far to work out how to superimpose the text onto the actual picture, as in Lionel's example above,
instead of in a new bar at top.bottom or side.
So please if anybody succeeds perhaps they could post details of this elusive technique here.
two other points while I am at it:-
1 I noticed that the programme is able to save any picture whether unaltered or annotated in a range of formats , hence it
is also a format conversion tool
2.Another method is to use a graphics programme to crop resize etc
forexample the free Irfan View from:-
http://www.irfanview.com/
or if you already have it MGI Photosuite or Photoshop
then you can add make a montage or add crappy graphics/lettering using a suitable draw or desktop publishing programme
I can recommend a fine pair of freebies from Serif
Pageplus and Drawplus
both of which I bought as a bundle on multiple floppies eons ago but which are now available for completely free download from:-
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
which also offers free "old" versions of Photoplus and Webplus a simply splendid site, designed to gently entice you into
buying the later versions of course.