'Blogger Beware: You CAN Get
Sued For Using Photos You
Don't Own on Your Blog'
According to the author of this article:
You are violating copyright unless you have express permission from the owner.
Linking back to the source, disclaimers, claiming innocence, non-commercial use, do not release you from liability. I urge you to read the article for further information.
13 comments:
what about taking photos of the television screen? that's what I have been doing for a very long time. a photo still of something that is moving on TV.
nice share, it's okay if you get photo in the new article my be lyk that
Good to know! Valerie
that is good to know!
Good to know information, Christine!
I am just wondering how many owners of those photos really have the time to track their hundreds and hundreds of images across the web, and how long it would take to resolve this.
Not to say that it's ok to do the image pirating, as I for one, have so many photos out there, and no time to go looking to see who took what.
Wow! I think I can count on one hand the time I've used a photo without getting permission, and ALWAYS credited the person, but it's distressing to think I did the wrong thing.
thanks for pointing this out. I do a lot of different sorts of blogging, 90% of it with images. I had for a long time always been punctillious about using creative commons or shooting photos/illustrating myself (I even have a personal stock photo collection) but in the past few months I'd let myself slide, esp since hardly anyone even looks at that blog LOL cuz it's so much easier to just google something & bob's your uncle --- good reminder!
Wow you make me glad that I only use my own work or with the express permission of the photographer. But I got to say if anyone used my photos or art work on their blog and credited it to me I would not be upset. Instead I would be honoured. I would be upset if they were being used for commercial use though!
Gigi that should be ok as it's your own photo! It's scary.
I'm also guilty Icy! Once when I first started blogging, a photographer did get back to me, but just a warning luckily! And I had not claimed the photo to be mine.
I have a friend in litigation for this very reason. Not only did this chickie steal his photo, but removed the Watermark and put her own on.
I've been trying to spread this word for a long time, but I get blocked by the blogger and told off!
Pinterest is in trouble for all of these reasons!
BTW
You've quoted her text from her post. Fair Use says you can't copy entire things like this. You can quote snippets, but you have to use your own words!
Cheers from Cottage Country!
thanks for the 'heads up' Jenn, I was wondering about text.
and I've fixed the text.
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