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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Windows Vista sample images
« on: May 05, 2009, 04:08:41 PM »
Oscar - Thanks for the info. I'm looking into the DMCA now and I'll let you know what I can come up with.
Lettered - I was thinking along the same lines. The images were not being shared but simply displayed. Looking at the EULA it's pretty vague on the use of the images. I guess the legal definition of "shared" could be debated.
I've looked thru every image on my server and the images are no longer there, so the user could have removed them. The best I can tell from tearing thru the database logs and backups is that these 2 images could have only been displayed for no more than a week at the most, and even then would have only been viewed as a 64X64 pixel icon. I've just recently redesigned the site and the screen shots they sent me were recent - within the last month or so; the site was relaunched on 3/15/09 with a completely new look, fell and function.
With a user driven community site (think Facebook for car guys) what's to keep someone from creating an account, uploading some copyrighted photos, taking some screen shots and then sending out a bill for the copyright infringement (think Getty Images). I know pretty far fetched but it's entirely possible and feasible!
Another question that could be posed is does the Picscout bot/crawler have the right to steal my bandwidth by crawling the sites pages unnoticed and unsolicited? I have to pay for the bandwidth that the crawler uses to find the images after all. Could get interesting!
Lettered - I was thinking along the same lines. The images were not being shared but simply displayed. Looking at the EULA it's pretty vague on the use of the images. I guess the legal definition of "shared" could be debated.
I've looked thru every image on my server and the images are no longer there, so the user could have removed them. The best I can tell from tearing thru the database logs and backups is that these 2 images could have only been displayed for no more than a week at the most, and even then would have only been viewed as a 64X64 pixel icon. I've just recently redesigned the site and the screen shots they sent me were recent - within the last month or so; the site was relaunched on 3/15/09 with a completely new look, fell and function.
With a user driven community site (think Facebook for car guys) what's to keep someone from creating an account, uploading some copyrighted photos, taking some screen shots and then sending out a bill for the copyright infringement (think Getty Images). I know pretty far fetched but it's entirely possible and feasible!
Another question that could be posed is does the Picscout bot/crawler have the right to steal my bandwidth by crawling the sites pages unnoticed and unsolicited? I have to pay for the bandwidth that the crawler uses to find the images after all. Could get interesting!