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Even family photos get stolen
Grover Sanschagrin, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Carlos Delgado, Photographer
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Long Beach | CA | USA | Posted: 12:10 PM on 06.06.09 |
| ->> Wow. You would think that a business would not try to blow up a tiny, lo-res, hijacked facebook photo for a big ad like that. Wouldn't a large reprint of that photo be VERY pixelated?... unless the original was a nice, large file with no watermark just asking to be dragged and dropped. |
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Bastian Ehl, Photographer
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Magdeburg | _ | Germany | Posted: 4:12 AM on 06.07.09 |
| ->> Beside the fact, that the image was stolen, it looks indeed like a print from a high-res file. A 600px Facebook file would look horrible when printed that big. |
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Daniel Malmberg, Photographer
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Huskvarna | Sweden | Sweden | Posted: 6:48 AM on 06.07.09 |
->> Quote from the link:
"...I take FULL responsibillity for posting this picture with the incorrect resolution (read: too high). Clearly, I am not a professional photographer and should have made the resolution smaller and/or watermarked the picture...". |
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Samuel Lewis, Photographer
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Miami | FL | USA | Posted: 8:03 AM on 06.07.09 |
->> Daniel:
What's your point? The fact that the blogger is taking full responsibility for her own infringing conduct does not mean that she's also taking responsibility for another's infringing use of the same photograph. The secondary infringer--the person who stole the image for the advertisement--is also facing another problem in that he or she does not have a model release from the people pictured in the photograph.
Taking responsibility for posting a photo on the web is like taking responsibility for parking your car downtown. It doesn't mean that you also take responsibility for the car thief who decides to steal your car. |
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Daniel Malmberg, Photographer
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Huskvarna | Sweden | Sweden | Posted: 10:20 AM on 06.07.09 |
->> Samuel!:
I definitely totally agree with what you are writing.
My apologies for not being clearer with why i posted the quote.
The reason why i posted, (maybe a bit unnecessary), the quote was to point out that it was high resolution image that was stolen.
You can be absolutely shore that i will never ewer defend stealing images. |
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 6:26 PM on 06.11.09 |
| ->> Here's the irony of it all: How many more unauthorized usages are now circulating around the interwebz of both the original image and the storefront shot? |
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Brian Dowling, Photographer
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