flickr.com— Once again the popular Icelandic photographer and Flickr member Rebekka Gu?leifsd?ttir has been ripped off here photos. She found 25 of here photos for sale at iStockphoto.
Feb 5, 2008View in Crawl 4
I fail to see where this is Yahoo/Flickr's fault. The person took the photos and would have taken them from wherever they had been posted, and then uploaded them to iStockphoto??
Stealing is bulls**t any way you look at it. But in the age of digital photography it's commonplace. I've had my work ripped off, sold as someone else's and it completely blows. Unless you individually register a copyright with the US Copyright folks there's not much you can do, even in court. You can/should read the following entry @ photoattorney.com<a class="user" href="http://www.photoattorney.com/2007/03/licensing-your-copyright.html">http://www.photoattorney.com/2007/03/licensing-you ...</a>and I highly recommend this book:<a class="user" href="http://www.photoattorney.com/products.html">http://www.photoattorney.com/products.html</a>Watermarks, unfortunately, can be easily removed either by converting the stolen file back to RAW and editing or skillfully using the clone tool and healing brush in PShop, so unfortunately watermarking is not a course of action to take with much/any success.In the end, don't post anything on the web in a high resolution. Size image small, register any image w/ the copyright folks that you feel is worth selling or could potentially be used commercially, etc. (you can do that online now I believe copyright.gov)
Better yet, it's like saying that it's okay to shoplift from a store because they just leave their merchandise lying around all willy-nilly. She had her work on display, it was stolen, the thief thought they could get away with it and they failed to do so. Crime is not the victim's fault.
What's your solution? Hire people to look at every picture, then cross reference it with every other picture every taken?Some people are so anti-corporation that they think companies can never do the right thing...and if they do, they can't do it for the right reason. The world isn't as evil as you think.
watermarking really ruins the impact of the image - but iStock has pretty steep quality guidelines, so a web-resolution photo shouldn't be accepted... I make it a point to never upload photos in their full resolution, always scaled down to 640x480 or so. That way if someone does "steal" it there isn't much they can do.
falldogFeb 6, 2008
That's why you've got to throw big honking watermarks over everything.
Closed AccountFeb 6, 2008
Yahoo! doesn't care about your property.That's what you get for putting your hard work on a site run by yahoos.Fck Flickr
cmiperFeb 6, 2008
I fail to see where this is Yahoo/Flickr's fault. The person took the photos and would have taken them from wherever they had been posted, and then uploaded them to iStockphoto??
grimdotdotdotFeb 6, 2008
About as hard as it is to use question marks. I'd like to see how well you do in a second language.
rchargelFeb 6, 2008
Actually, you don't even need to be here for that. You only need to assign power of attorney to your lawyer.
btezraFeb 6, 2008
Stealing is bulls**t any way you look at it. But in the age of digital photography it's commonplace. I've had my work ripped off, sold as someone else's and it completely blows. Unless you individually register a copyright with the US Copyright folks there's not much you can do, even in court. You can/should read the following entry @ photoattorney.com<a class="user" href="http://www.photoattorney.com/2007/03/licensing-your-copyright.html">http://www.photoattorney.com/2007/03/licensing-you ...</a>and I highly recommend this book:<a class="user" href="http://www.photoattorney.com/products.html">http://www.photoattorney.com/products.html</a>Watermarks, unfortunately, can be easily removed either by converting the stolen file back to RAW and editing or skillfully using the clone tool and healing brush in PShop, so unfortunately watermarking is not a course of action to take with much/any success.In the end, don't post anything on the web in a high resolution. Size image small, register any image w/ the copyright folks that you feel is worth selling or could potentially be used commercially, etc. (you can do that online now I believe copyright.gov)
cathpahFeb 9, 2008
my food has to be paid by the money i make. whether i have other money on the side for clothes shouldn't be held against me. :)
midnightbrewerFeb 13, 2008
Better yet, it's like saying that it's okay to shoplift from a store because they just leave their merchandise lying around all willy-nilly. She had her work on display, it was stolen, the thief thought they could get away with it and they failed to do so. Crime is not the victim's fault.
jcountermanMar 2, 2008
What's your solution? Hire people to look at every picture, then cross reference it with every other picture every taken?Some people are so anti-corporation that they think companies can never do the right thing...and if they do, they can't do it for the right reason. The world isn't as evil as you think.
culbrichMar 7, 2008
watermarking really ruins the impact of the image - but iStock has pretty steep quality guidelines, so a web-resolution photo shouldn't be accepted... I make it a point to never upload photos in their full resolution, always scaled down to 640x480 or so. That way if someone does "steal" it there isn't much they can do.