10 BOGUS excuses people use for stealing photos

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:54 am

for our leaders;

I agree 1,000%

1. There was no “copyright” logo or any other watermark on the photo
Copyrights exist by default. As soon as an amateur or professional photographer hits the shutter button, all the power of the copyright law is now associated with the photo. Therefore, a photographer does not have to specify on the photo or on his website that the photo is protected by copyright. Unless specified otherwise, consider a photo as copyrighted.

2. The photo is on the Internet, therefore it is free to use!
Is a photo easy to copy when it’s on the Internet? Yes. Does a photo lose its copyright status when it’s uploaded on the Internet? No.

A photo does not magically fall into the public domain when it’s uploaded to the Internet. The photographer keeps his copyright and, depending of the country, his photo will remain copyrighted between 50 to 70 years after his death. Only after that will it fall on the public domain.

http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/10-bo ... -internet/

PS this took me 3 minutes to place up and 3 tries ( kept getting the cloud flare page and error page
But felt it should be noted here

Now lets see if it loads, i am copying it first in case it doesn't

Post by **Username Taken** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 11:11 am

Thanks for your persistence Richard.

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 5:47 pm

Dead horse being flogged by people with conflict of interest alert.

Ten reasons why photographers feel they don't have to pay people for taking their picture, or pay governments for scenic photographs, even when they make money out of it, no mention of that.

Have cake and eat it syndrome.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 6:04 pm

Guilty.

Stealing is BAYD, but I do it.

Sometimes a post just looks so much more interesting with a photo.

I need to learn how to post my own photos.

(And no, I would not steal a bicycle. ) Unless it was an emergency of course.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 6:07 pm

BTW it took me 11 seconds to post that.

Hotdigr · Post by **Hotdigr** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 7:31 pm

So Richard, I must assume that -
You have never burned a copy of a mates CD or DVD?
Or back in the day, you never used a twin player cassette deck to copy a mates cassette?
You never video taped a T.V show?
Never played music from a tape/record/cd at a party without paying royalties?
You have never bought a pirate copy of a dvd/cd in say Bali, Thailand or Cambodia?
Never bought a cheap copy of a book from the sellers on riverside or any of the book exchanges?
If you can honestly answer "No, I have never done any of those things and in fact I always leave a friends house if he was doing any of the above after explaining I couldn't be party to the act of copyright infringement",
Then I will listen to your argument. But I don't believe you can honestly say that.

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 7:47 pm

i cant quote u as the fucking wheel just spins and spins

but i have done all the above
BUT i have never done any of the above for profit or claimed that it was my work

Until they opened their eyes here, they actually watermarked others work as their own

That's my objection,

the rest is just a post someone else wrote and I tend to agree with in my own twisted mind

Hotdigr · Post by **Hotdigr** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:46 pm

phuketrichard wrote:
Until they opened their eyes here, they actually watermarked others work as their own

That's my objection,

Thats fair enough, I disagreed with that also. However, that's pretty old history now.
BTW, all of a sudden in the last couple of days, I am experiencing the same problems with the site loading. But it only happens when I am logged in, not when I'm just browsing. Don't know why, but it definitely makes it a shit fight at times to post a reply. Not always though, it appears to be an intermittent problem, at least for me.

YouTube · Post by **General Mackevili** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 7:53 am

phuketrichard wrote:
PS this took me 3 minutes to place up and 3 tries ( kept getting the cloud flare page and error page
But felt it should be noted here

Now lets see if it loads, i am copying it first in case it doesn't

Anchor Moy wrote:BTW it took me 11 seconds to post that.

Shit, I thought these were 10 valid excuses, LoL.

And thanks for hanging in there.

We are well aware that the site is pretty fucked, at the moment, and are getting a new professional on the case, as I realize this really needs to be fixed.

Thanks to those who have reported the problems, and to those who have bitten the bullet and have been hanging in there. I also know it's about as fucking frustrating as something can get and that everyone's patience can't last forever.

We'll keep you updated with the new approaches we take to tackle it.

And it goes without saying that I'm seriously sorry it's taking this long.

TheGrinchSR · Post by **TheGrinchSR** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 8:01 am

I don't know how much you're spending on hosting etc. but have you considered using a Ning networks social network instead? Lots more functionality, features, etc. and jolly reliable (even from behind the great firewall of China). $49 a month gives you a 5,000 user account... and lots of lovely metrics to sell to advertisers at some point down the line too.

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