Cover Art and Fair Use
I tend not to use other people's photos on my blog.
Certainly, uploading graphic art without the owner's consent is one way to attract un-needed attention.
An efficient way to trace work is to use the reverse search engine, Tineye. I was very pleased to find that one of my photos has appeared on six blogs, ensuring success for a writer friend, one hopes. But such searches can also help to find misappropriation of work, where permission has not been sought. Catmacbride, a fellow Flickrite, discussed this recently and it took a lot of time from a busy working day to sort the matter out it seems.
Interestingly, none of the bloggers who used my photo asked for permission. I sometimes wonder if I am living in the past, where other people's property belonged to them.
My teachers would have muttered phrases by Cicero and make the culprits blush.
On the other hand, "O tempora, o mores!" still makes me laugh.
An efficient way to trace work is to use the reverse search engine, Tineye. I was very pleased to find that one of my photos has appeared on six blogs, ensuring success for a writer friend, one hopes. But such searches can also help to find misappropriation of work, where permission has not been sought. Catmacbride, a fellow Flickrite, discussed this recently and it took a lot of time from a busy working day to sort the matter out it seems.
Interestingly, none of the bloggers who used my photo asked for permission. I sometimes wonder if I am living in the past, where other people's property belonged to them.
My teachers would have muttered phrases by Cicero and make the culprits blush.
On the other hand, "O tempora, o mores!" still makes me laugh.
posted by Tales from the Birch Wood. at
10:51
2 Comments:
Are your licensing permissions set to "all rights reserved?" If not - if they're creative commons - then they have the right to use the photo, so long as they link back to the Flickr page.
If they didn't link back - no matter whether you had a copyright on it - then they're in violation of the Flickr Terms of Service, and should be shut down.
Mea culpa! I have made unauthoried use of photos once or twice ina desperate moment. Leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth...
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