On 30/09/2012 9:46 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Sep 30, 2012, at 7:58 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I hate to be crude, but how fucking stupid is she??
Find what you're good at and go with it.
She really didn't know she was stealing?
Probably not. Most people don't think of it as stealing when the original
person hasn't lost anything tangible. She asked around and did what most
people seem to do.
You could make the case that copying a jpeg off the web is no more stealing
someone's art than taking a picture of a statue, or a pretty building. What if
you see a famous fashion model walking down the street and snap her picture?
She makes a living out of her pictures being taken, and you took one of here
without compensating her.
It would be good if html had a standard "you can't use this picture without paying
me" copyright tag that browsers could be set to recognize so that people had to
actually go to some work to snarf copyrighted stuff. But when it is that easy, and most
people don't care enough to do anything about it, most people don't think of it as
stealing, but rather what the web is there for.
The whole copyright thing is somewhat out of control anyway. I can
certainly understand if a person stands to make money off of a
particular image, that they might be a little miffed with someone for
lifting it, but for most of us, we put pictures on the web because we
are vain, and we want our peers to look at what we've done and tell us
that we are jolly good photographers.
For those of us who do that, someone lifting one of our pictures costs
us nothing, and should be giving us exactly what we put the image on the
web for anyway.
Someone thinks we are a jolly good enough photographer to lift our
picture. As long as they give a credit and don't claim that they made
the image themselves (never condone dishonesty), what's the fuss?
--
William Robb
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