Web pics and copyright?

nigelh

2 minutes. And it's still flash.

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nigelh

divetheworld

Any one else want to join in? Now all I need to do is find my 'merlin the happy pig' outfit and my humiliation will be complete.

Thanks guys.


My thoughts

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Jens Kallmeyer

HI

I am involved in a marine aquarium species database project. The pictures got ripped so often that the admin finally found no other way then to put a HUGE watermark into the picture. Does not look good, but you can still see what you need to see, see here
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/eng...iopeia/sp..htm

Jens

caveseeker7

My apologies, Brent.

Actually, you were halfway correct, I can't click on the flash images and save them as I can with jpg and like formats. I cheated and used the screen shot function on my Mac, then converted it to a jpg to post here. Flash will keep some people at bay, but the ones really out to cheat someone will still rip them off one way or another.

Nice shell, by the way.

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Stefan



"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.'!"

Marvintpa

If you want to sue for illegal useage you can really only recover lost income in the majority of cases, unless the shot was copyrighted in which case it's multiple times normal useage fees (meant as a deterrant). Recovering those costs out of country is a challenge.

I get shots stolen all the time. Most sites are willing to work with you right up to the point of paying at which point they either ignore you entirely or remove the pic. Watermarks don't even stop people.

caveseeker7

Copyright in the US and Europe usually lies with the creator.

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Stefan



"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.'!"

what2be

heheh, thanks. I do need some grammer work. Although I think the apostrophe key is broken. For some reason I read the original posters problem first thing this morning before the gym and I guess I went temporarily insane. Looking back, I guess that isnt the best first post. But im going to blame it on the little nag screen Ive been seeing pressuring me to post....nah...on second thought, maybe im just too opinionated!

Geoff

Duncan Price

Without wishing to open a can of shark's fin soup, I would just like to add that its a cultural thing regarding so called "plaigarism". I work in a Western European University department which has academic links with a number of Asian Universities - as a consequence we have a lot of "international" (that's the politically correct term) students from that region. These students have to be continually reminded to cite sources for anything that is not their own work. As I understand it (and stand willing to be corrected) there is (or was) a culture of less "ownership" of ideas in the Far East (and more cooperation for the Common Good) than in the Western hemisphere where ideas and concepts are more ferociously protected.

Often our view of what is right and what is wrong is driven by society rather than any "natural" justice.

I copy stuff all the time - I get my best ideas from others.

Only had one cup of coffee so far and needed a rant.

Crazyduck

A few years ago someone was selling a digital signature that was rumored to be traceable and they were talking about searching the net so they could cut down on misuse. I am not if this ever happened?

Has someone considering contacting RSA for an encrypted elements within the photo that would not allow the picture to be copied? Watermark across the image is great.

I agree with Duncan about it being a cultural issue. We have clients in the theater and we never send anything that is detailed in the manner of drawings and we always skew the scale of the drawings. All machinery is marked and seal chemical used on particular points. You break it we know.



The maker of Cray supercomputer had the same problem with his chip design work in Japan. He allowed a Japanese company to build some prototype chipsets for him and he saw the same exact chipset being sold (with his logo) at a chip conference the next year. As a result he opened a business in chip production (microlithography) for his prototype work.

Interesting topic- the perseption of value and ownership.

Andrew

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koputai

Good timing, as the proprieter of that shop joined these forums a day or two ago. See his intro in the intro forum. If you make sure your complaint gets to the boss and not to one of his employees you should get satisfaction. If not, a public shaming is in order.

Cheers,
Jason.