"Should businesses now have free reign to use his work for profit with no compensation for the artist because because they did not take the time to learn or care enough about what should and should not go on their websites? None of these things are acceptable to myself or Mr. Tylor.
Any business owner should know this and it is their responsibly to do so. In another thread it was mentioned that the "trolls" started this. No, we dont take action unless someone is profiting from our works. We are responding to a situation that we did not create as best we can."
So Glen, since you are only responding to people who are profiting from your/VKT works... Does that mean if my business has made NO profit, and I had immediately removed the image from my site that you will leave me alone?
"Again these are not college students downloading music for personal use.
These are business professionals using our images for their profit and yes, I as well as Mr. Tylor feel strongly that the use should be compensated wither the business owner cared enough to ensure that they could use the image or not.
Your assumption that we are all business professionals who should "care" enough... Is not accurate. I am a single parent, trying to start a new business, inexperienced in the Internet, so I "cared" enough to hired someone to do my site to avoid any such problems. I asked where the photos came from and believed when told they were in the public domain. That had been downloaded from an AT&T site of free photos. The one and only photo in question is 240/320 and only a portion of the original. The photograph is available for free 15 pages deep on a google search in much larger sizes. Thanks to ELI I am gaining knowledge and empowerment.