Yeah, Adam's right. Ultimately, this is all bullshit and only comes into effect if someone does like Prince and hires people to scour the net looking for instances where someone used your image or sounds and then pays people to make it so that that situation goes away.
All you have to do is look on YouTube for gazillions of instances where people have music in their videos that they didn't secure the rights to and also video and pictures that they didn't secure the rights to. So, like Adam says... The only way to avoid your pictures being "illegally" used is to not post them AT ALL. That's not an option, so make sure you put either ARR or a CC license on your media, learn what legal options are avilable to you IF you catch someone and hope for the best. Now that we're talking about this, there's at least one site that scrapes THIS GROUP and will have THIS POST on it. I know, because it shows up in my Google Alerts. As far as the situation of someone using your picture on a forum, you've skipped the part where you have to FIND OUT that someone did that. NOW you have to find out what agencies you can contact, what the process is to get him/her to cease & desist, and how much that's going to cost you. Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In [email protected], "Adam Quirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If All Rights Reserved, then he can't use your photo without your > > permission, whatever he says. > > > Not to split hairs with Mr. Howe, but he definitely *can* use your photo > without your permission, just not legally. Anything you put on The Internet > can be used without your permission. Nature of the Beast, and in general a > good thing. > > Since you're asking for advice, I suggest getting over it and moving on. And > please don't sue me. > > *Adam Quirk* / Wreck & Salvage <http://wreckandsalvage.com> / > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / +1 551.208.4644 (m) / imbullemhead (aim) > > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It could help a bit if you told us what picture, and where it's being > > used, and even gave a link to the forum where he's taunting you. > > > > Flickr allows you to set permissions on your photos. I believe it's > > All Rights Reserved by default, and that you can manually set various > > levels of Creative Commons permissions individually for each photo or > > by default. Without seeing the photo page on Flickr, I can't tell > > what licence you've issued for the picture. Probably All Rights > > Reserved, but if you've changed it to Creative Commons then he has > > certain rights to reuse it according to what licence you used. > > > > If All Rights Reserved, then he can't use your photo without your > > permission, whatever he says. A simple Google search would confirm > > this to you and him. You can Google about your rights under the > > DMCA, and issue him with a formal notice to stop using your image, > > also his web host, or whatever service he's using to steal it. > > > > But again, more info - and if you want some of us to go to the forum > > to back you up and discuss it with him, post a link. > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > On 29-Aug-08, at 8:21 PM, B Yen wrote: > > > > I have a Flickr account, & have been uploading pictures. No image > > watermark like "COPYRIGHT (c)2008 my name". I want to confirm that > > people can't use my photos without permission. Can someone summarize > > what my rights are? > > > > Some clown deliberately used my photo & is taunting me on a forum > > that he can do it. A bunch of his redneck friends are openly > > harassing me, & threatening me. > > > > They are saying something to the effect "an image made publicly > > available, is fair game". Uh, no. > > > > There is a modification of Copyright Law (Berne convention, forgot > > what year), where as soon as the photo is made..it's automatically > > copyrighted. PHotographer owns photo. HOwever, there are other > > factors determining what a photographer can sue for, when infringed. > > Statutory damages, etc. > > > > Can someone clarify this for me, given photo/video sharing websites & > > Creative Commons licenses? > > > > Here is what I found on Flickr: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr > > > > Licensing > > Flickr offers users the ability to release their images under certain > > common usage licenses. The licensing options primarily include the > > Creative Commons 2.0 attribution-based and minor content-control > > licenses - although jurisdiction and version-specific licenses cannot > > be selected. As with "tags", the site allows easy searching of only > > those images that fall under a specific license.[19] > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
