Showing posts with label copyright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copyright. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 June 2008

Who is selling your photos online?

"A man goes to an REM concert. The conditions on the ticket banned taking photographs, but Steve Miller and his wife, who were conveniently seated in the middle of the front row in the Royal Albert Hall in March, noticed that everyone around them was taking photographs and the staff weren't stopping them. So they took some, too - about a dozen nice, bright, clear, good-quality concert photographs. Miller put them up on Flickr, as you do, and thought little more about it.

Then one day in mid-May Alison Clarke, another Flickr user, contacted him to let him know that his photographs were up for sale on eBay.
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So the photographer is complaining because someone is selling images he wasn't actually supposed to have taken in the first place?

Being a part-time freelance photographer, I'm all for protection of peoples' rights, but in this particular instance, the photographer was well aware they had broken copyright law themselves in the first place.

Who is selling your photos online? | Technology | The Guardian

Friday, 18 May 2007



"Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments
Yahoo has been accused of censorship on its popular photo website Flickr, in a row that has highlighted the issue of copyright in the online age. Earlier this month photographer Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir discovered that seven of her pictures were reportedly being sold by a UK-based online gallery. She raised the issue on Flickr but a photo and comments were deleted.
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This is precisely why I watermark and add additional copyright statements to all my images.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments

The copyright violators in question are only-dreemin and you'll find that they are already mentioned on quite a few blogs. At time of writing, the photographer was not able to persue them through the UK courts as she couldn't afford to do so - so they get away with it.

The moral of the story is: never upload full-resolution images to the web, and watermark any images you do upload, preferably place in areas that would make it very difficult or impossible to edit out.

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