Re: Posting photographs Technique and Copyright


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Posted by Jon on December 08, 2006 at 17:03:07 from 199.159.117.62 user Jon.

In Reply to: Re: Posting photographs Technique and Copyright posted by Mike Field on December 06, 2006 at 22:55:38:

I moderate on a photography message board; our policy is quite clear; you don't post someone else's image without written permission and you must attribute the owner. If you don't have permission you provide a direct link to the site, not an embedded image. The rules stipulate that you either own copyright of anything you post, or you obtain permission from the copyright owner, thus complying with copyright law.

Yes, it becomes obvious once you follow the link from the image who hosts it, but how does anyone know that the image is linked from an off-site server, rather than being an integral part of the site you have created? Are we all supposed to read the underlying HTML for every page we view? By not citing the source of the image, you're fostering the impression that it's yours. How is that different from plagiarism? I submit the difference is in degree, not in kind. In the case of an image, you've taken an entire unique work, whereas when you quote a passage from a book, you've only used a small portion thereof.

"Deep linking" as you describe has also been challenged, generally successfully, not just for the use of the owner's image or content, but for the use of their bandwidth, so I wouldn't be so confident that you'd be able to get away with it. If you link to someone else's image, every time someone opens the page where you embedded the image, the owner's site has to serve up that image and he receives no credit for it, although he has to pay for the bandwidth used, and he loses any potential revenue he might have otherwise obtained from sales or from advertising click-throughs. You have harmed him materially, whatever you may think.


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