Interesting factual read on photo copyright

pullandbang

Just came across this blog in which the blogger was successfully sued by the owner of a photo she used on her blog. Have a read.......:eek:

http://www.roniloren.com/blog/2012/7/20/bloggers-beware-you-can-get-sued-for-using-pics-on-your-blog.html

AnCatDubh

pullandbang wrote: »

Just came across this blog in which the blogger was successfully sued by the owner of a photo she used on her blog. Have a read.......:eek:

http://www.roniloren.com/blog/2012/7/20/bloggers-beware-you-can-get-sued-for-using-pics-on-your-blog.html

Interesting.

Her do's rather than her don't(s) are probably better advice. Though its from state side.

Someone please sue someone else here in Ireland so we'll all know where we stand. The ones which have passed by these forums generally don't leave follow up - perhaps there's ongoing litigation or i've missed some... We should have a sticky perhaps :pac:

Gregor Samsa

Interesting indeed. I wonder did it go to court, or did she settle? Is there anything more to this story that she's not telling us? I guess we'll never know. Anyway, she should make good use of the image now that she's paid for it (within the terms of the license she bought, of course).

There are concerns (in the UK at least) that as Copyright law is currently written, merely visiting a webpage, or even providing a link to one, could technically be breaking the copyright regarding any content on that page - even if the page itself is licensed to use that content. Here's an article about it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/23/gov_should_act_on_web_browsing_copyright_issue/

It seems that the copyright laws need to be re-written to allow for distributed electronic publishing.

I posted in another thread today about how social media companies need a disclaimer in their T&Cs to allow them to use various technologies (caching, hosting, etc.) to enable them to provide content globally at the scales demanded of them. It seems this is accounted for in EU copyright law. From the article linked above:

Under EU copyright laws, rights-holders are entitled to charge licence fees for temporary copies of copyrighted works. But the Copyright Directive also provides that rights-holders may not charge fees if those temporary copies are "an integral and essential part of a technological process whose sole purpose is to enable... a lawful use of a [copyright] work." This is the only exception to copyright law that is mandatory and must be implemented by every European Union member state.

pullandbang

phutyle wrote: »

Edit: Oh, and you "just came across" the blog of the Romance author of such titillating titles as "Melt Into You", "Crash Into You" and "Still into You"? Yeah right, we believe you

Obviously I'm "Into her" :-)

Nebezpeci Mys

Thanks a million, Denis. Mr. T just came across a photo of mine on somebody's blog, so reading your post yesterday helped a lot!