Someone needs to get with the times
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/11/2009-06-11_missouri_...
The gist:
A Family has a family portrait taken for a Christmas picture and posts it online to blogs/social sites.
A Company in another country uses it in printed advertisement for their store, (just as a background picture of a family).
"[The Photographer who took the family photo] said she has asked a professional photographers' organization to help figure out how her image wound up in Prague."
Well lets see, you gave it to them, they admit they put it the internet... Maybe someone should give her a clue that it doesn't require a black market smuggling ring to get the internet in Prague??????
(On the flip side, it was most likely ignorance in the owner's part, and if you didn't go to the article, when he was notified it was a real family photo, and not stock photos, he took steps to remove it and offered to send an apology.)
This is why I don't post pictures all over social sites and personal blogs... you never know where they will end up or used for what reason!
-Greg
Megan posted this at 19:37 — 7th August 2009.
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Well, that grocery store manager was the worst cuprit here IMO. You can't just take any photo off the interwebs and use it in your marketing. They should be paying that family to use their photo for advertising. If that image was owned by a professional photography company you can bet they'd be getting their money.
The part about how the image ended up "in Prague" may have been a mistake on the part of the author of the article too. The wording maybe could have been more clear.
Posting photos on the internet *shouldn't* entitle anyone to use that in any way they want. Of course, that doesn't mean they *won't*. But, then, if they do you can sue them for copyright infringement.
Unless you post it on Facebook etc. in which case Facebook has the right to do whatever they want with it. Not sure if that includes selling to 3rd parties.
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greg posted this at 19:59 — 7th August 2009.
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No harm done though, so everyone can laugh (I know I did
).
I couldn't find the link to the actual blog, but surely if it's a personal blog it's fairly clear it's someone's family and friends? So surely not a "genuine" mistake?
Still, the only issue would have been if the grocery store owner had not been as sincere and told them to get stuffed. At least he removed it.
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Greg K posted this at 21:02 — 7th August 2009.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying because it's out there is it free to use (I get grief over how picky I am on proper licensed software and media).
Now if she was wondering what route it took to get there (ie. lady posting on blog, this person took it and posted on their site, this person sees it an puts it on a site listing "free"images), then I can understand that, but wording saying she was asking other photographers to explain, it didn't read that way to me.
Let we forgot the masses of people that do an image search on google and just grab it to use not caring (and I'll give, that there is probably a good amount who are just ignorant to the legalities) and grab it.
Megan, it is funny you mention facebook, as that is the thread of e-mails here at work that brought out the link I posted. Someone posted the couple week old notice that facebook changed their policy to give out images, someone else posted facebook clarification.
-Greg
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