I'm also sorry some photographers might get mifted that we did not mention their names. But in my opinion any photos I find googling on the internet are free game and I will copy them. So sue me! (not you Roger, I'm just venting.) People shouldn't put photos on the internet and expect them to remain private. At least I'm treating all photos and people equally by not giving any info on any of them. So far, nobody has complained.
Well, this is your first complaint. I'd intended to take it up
with you privately, but since you've gone out of your way to bring up
the subject then rub our noses in it, I don't see why
I should.
It is very easy to collect photos and throw them online without
captions. It is also essentially uninformative. Yes, the work is in
captioning, explaining, etc.
But mostly, pirating the work of others is not an acceptable
practice. Your opinion on the rights to photographs is not in
accordance with the law in the US nor, very likely, in most any
civilized countries: what you've done is infringement of
copyright.
The excuse that you believe that people placing material online
are somehow expecting it to "remain private" is
disingenuous. Any fool can see that the very intention of a person
doing so is to make it public. You might as well claim that the
authors of books, or movies, or music, shouldn't expect their work not
to be pirated since it's clear they meant to keep it secret, and
you're doing everybody a favor by copying it.
In my case -- the photograph of the beautiful dial at Cesi in
Umbria on my page
http://tinyurl.com/y7ow97
is my property (it's quite an excursion getting to that village,
by the way, and I caught a horrific cold on it) and I am
well within my rights to ask you to remove it from your page. Had you
asked me beforehand by the way, I would have said sure, as
I almost always do to requests of this kind.
--
Bill Thayer
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html
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