How do you feel about copyright on images freely available on the Internet?

jle349252015-11-24 13:29:30

jle34925, 2015-11-24 13:29:30

I have several sites with photos, strangers. Sites are like photo galleries. There are also several search scripts for photographs on the Internet. So, sometimes, I get requests, from alleged owners of some photos, to remove their photos from my sites, and they also complain to the domain registrar, and they ask me to send copies of the passport, and so on all the time. I'm already tired, tired. What do you think, taking photos from open sources, namely from sites where the authors themselves post these photos, and then complain ... is this normal?

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Vladimir Martyanov, 2015-11-24
@vilgeforce

Quite: did the author transfer the right to "public reproduction" to you? Not? Then please do not reproduce. Especially without attribution.

GoldenYear, 2015-11-24
@GoldenYear

from open sources, namely from sites where the authors themselves post these photos, and then complain
depending on what license these photos are allowed to use. Perhaps, where you take them from, for example, by-nc , which means: indicate the author - for non-commercial use.
It is easier to take pictures in photobanks with a CC0 license.
man Creative Commons.

Saboteur, 2015-11-24
@saboteur_kiev

And you give examples of where exactly you took such photos, read the rules on the site where you took the photo.
Free access on the internet is nothing at all. Free torrents are full of unlicensed videos, and what if I download from a torrent am I entitled to it? no.
Therefore, you should not think that everything is free on the Internet legally.

Robot, 2015-11-24
@iam_not_a_robot

No, this is not quite normal, then ask them for permission before publishing, put links to their sites, everything is correct. Maybe they make money on it, and you interfere ...

Alexey Ukolov, 2015-11-24
@alexey-m-ukolov

What do you think, taking photos from open sources, namely from sites where the authors themselves post these photos, and then complain ... is this normal?

When someone leaves their car on the side of the road and you get in and drive away, it still counts as theft, even if the door was open and the keys were in the ignition.

Alexey Nikolaev, 2015-11-24
@Heian

Through the mouths of the greats - "when someone takes a picture to their site or in a blog, it's sacred" (c) Artemy Lebedev. The authors are wrong, in fact - if they are so worried about the rights when they upload a photo to a place where, without locking the content for seven seals, it cannot be saved with a license, let them put watermarks.
But, unfortunately, law is law. Perhaps a backlink to the author can help, and a disclaimer from below (here to lawyers, but many catalogs of other people's content have been working for many years, writing below "information provided for review purposes, you must delete it after").
PS As noted above, a lot depends on the license, as well as the "right holder".

sashabeep, 2015-11-25
@sashabeep

Use free stocks

Alexey Timofeev, 2015-11-28
@phtimofeeff

The issue is solved simply, take and refer to the source of the photo, right exactly on the page where you took it from.
Otherwise, this can be done implicitly, so that later the search engines do not consider you a link base, but understand that this is a link to the author and nothing more.

iulimel, 2016-03-09
@iulimel

I agree that it is better to take photos from sites with a Commons Creatives CC0 license (transfer to the public). For example, where you can get it (this is a German free bank, I don’t know Russian ones): pixabay.com. Tip, if you want to be completely safe, then take a screenshot of the screen when downloading, so that later no one will have any claims against you.