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Legal Controversies Forum / Sane Approach to Copyrights

« on: October 19, 2012, 10:22:44 AM »

As a content creator and user, I have a vested interest in intellectual property and the way it's used. I support the right of creators to earn from their work and feel that some kind of governance is needed (but not the kind of mindless, baseless threats routinely issued by Getty et al). I just received information this week about a new Copyright Alert System that notifies users when they are infringing by educating (without threatening) them. Take a look at this and see what you think:
http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2012/10/a-sensible-approach-to-the-copyright-alert-system/
I'll be blogging about this myself when I've had the opportunity to delve a little deeper, but I thought you folks might find this noteworthy. I haven't found any other references to this development on the ELI forums thus far.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Haters

« on: August 10, 2012, 11:37:01 AM »

It's funny. Since I started blogging about this, I've gotten so much support, I didn't account for blow-back by haters. Today, this comment was posted by in response to my first entry:

"I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for you. Your’re ranting because you got caught. Theft is theft. The fact that you are a small business is completely irrelevant other than the fact that if you were a big business like Facebook or Amazon your fee for that image would have been ten times greater. Consider yourself lucky you only have to pay $980 for your theft. If it were up to my attorneys in this matter, your fee would be much higher."

I also noticed some activity, with referrals back to my blog from this URL:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=851284

Clearly, there are people (primarily photographers) who feel strongly that people like me should be strung from the highest tree.

It's amazing to me that so many people live in a black and white world. But I'm glad I opened this door and let the light shine in from my little corner. I hope it helps.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Another Victim

« on: July 27, 2012, 12:15:42 PM »

http://graphicdetailnj.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/getty-me-outta-here/