From: Matthew Hunt
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:29 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> All hosting sites have terms and conditions that allow them to display the
images
> (well, duh, you think, but ...), and to allow them to use the images, in
context,
> to promote their own services.
>
> Flickr went a *lot* further than that.
Can you be specific? All I'm seeing from anyone so far is vague
allusions and FUD.
There's nothing particularly damning regarding "ownership" of images at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr#Controversy
Nor are Google searches like [flickr license controversy] leading me
to anything useful.
I seem to remember the controversy was an accusation that "Flicker
steals photos", so that's what I Googled.
I didn't find anything where Flickr had actually taken anyone's photos,
but there are a lot of hits about people stealing user's photos *FROM*
Flickr.
I don't know that it's any more of a problem with Flickr than it is with
other sites ... allowing for relative size - Flickr appears to be the
largest site, so it's logically the site most frequently stolen from.
I couldn't find anything to substantiate that Flickr ever took user's
photos and sold them to anyone in violation of the rights the user had
assigned when they uploaded the image.
There's a website called Tineye that allows your to search for images if
you think they might have been stolen from you.
http://www.tineye.com/
You can pass it the URL for your Flickr photostream & search for similar
images by clicking on each of your images.
There's another Flickr user who has a photo of the Cape Hatteras Light
house. Whoever took it must have been standing in almost exactly the
same spot I was, but it's not my photo. I took mine just before dawn,
and he took his sometime in the afternoon.
There's also TinEye plugin's for Firefox, Chrome, IE & Safari.
Not perfect though. It can't find couple of images I know exist in more
than one place (on my blog & on my photostream)
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