Comments on: Understanding Online Photo Rights

By: FireMom

FireMom — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:01:45 +0000

Quite possibly the best photo copyright write-up I’ve ever read. Thank you. I will be linking to this shortly. I also just sent it to someone who yanked a photo off of my site.

By: ART IN REALITY

ART IN REALITY — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:03:56 +0000

I found a comment that I left here two years ago and wanted to update it to reflect a changed point of view. When this article was first written I don't think reverse image searching was a reality, or if it was then it was neither accurate nor notably useful. While reverse image searching is still a little bit away from perfection, it is becoming more of a reality. In the near future I predict better meta tag preservation along with more accurate reverse image searching results eliminating the need to copyright or watermark images, based on how you want to brand your images.

If someone wants to erase your watermark then they are going to erase the watermark, tools to do this are now free and easy enough for the average non-technical person to use. Instead of worrying about how many people are seeing our artwork without logos we should be ensuring that when someone searches for the source they can easily find it.

If someone is hot-linking to an image why the heck would you turn away all those extra eyes? Write a script to route the hotlinked image to a custom advertising image of yours unless the user has already been to your site before.

Two years in the future, -Chris

By: david

david — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:19:10 +0000

what if I wanna use an online photo on a brochure?

By: Posts You Gotta Read: John Lund, Aliza Sherman | Pro Nature Photographer

Posts You Gotta Read: John Lund, Aliza Sherman | Pro Nature Photographer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:03:34 +0000

[...] Sherman of WebWorkerDaily posts a very good read about copying an image off a photographers website and placing it on her [...]

By: pisconeri

pisconeri — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:06 +0000

@David - the current copyright law has been in effect since 1978, no statue of limitations are relevant.

By: pisconeri

pisconeri — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:17:47 +0000

Embedding an image is copyright infringement, along with STEALING bandwidth from that website, not just a problem with the image, but a problem with using up someone else's web traffic (bandwidth) amount. If the site (and the image that is embedded) gets a lot of traffic, the original person could be liable for extra fees on their website because it got too much traffic.

By: Rob Maguire

Rob Maguire — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:04:43 +0000

A large weekly newspaper in Montreal once used one of my Flickr photos of a spoken word artist to accompany an article they published about her. It appeared both on the web and in the paper, without credit, and without permission.

They never contacted me about it, and it was only coincidence that I noticed the infringement. When I contacted them to ask about it, they were quite rude, blamed the artist, claimed they were within their rights to use the photo, and stubbornly refused to do anything about it other than give me a credit on the website.

After I persisted they finally agreed to pay me $50; however, I never received the payment.

I ended up dropping it altogether, as the stress it was causing wasn’t worth it. I typically aren’t bothered by a blog using my photo, and have always freely given permission when asked. But I feel much differently when it’s taken by a commercial newspaper with a budget to pay for photography — and the experience to know they should.

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:17:47 +0000

It occurs to me – after reading this again, and some of the responses… what about the statute of limitations? What about the laws as they existed in 2005?

I wonder if the statute of limitations hadn’t run out, although I’m sure that this was still copyright infringement in 2005.

I was surprised you didn’t understand this as copyright infringement, but then I’ve been tracking so-called “intellectual property” for some time…

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive What To Do When Your Work is Stolen Online «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive What To Do When Your Work is Stolen Online « — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:01:09 +0000

[...] had proper knowledge of copyright law when they did it, or it might be an honest mistake (such as what happened to fellow WWD blogger Aliza Sherman a few months back). Show them the facts and tell them what they need to do to set things [...]

By: ken kellner

ken kellner — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:13:51 +0000

what about a password protected educational site designed by middle school students?