My images have turned up on another website

[Vintage Paw]

And would they be *legally obliged* to take them off of Travelicious, right?

I think so, but don't quote me on that. I'd change your copyright to all rights reserved, then drop them a polite but firm email stating your photos are for personal use only and you want them to take them down from their commercial site. Then sit back and wait. Give them a few days - who knows what their email handling is like. Then take it from there. A stronger letter - explaining they are infringing your copyright etc. After that I'm not sure, not something I've had to deal with.

 

[boskysquelch]

scarfing images

that's a new one to meh.

...I fear the tags even when bearing gifts...

 

[Paul Russell]

Thanks for that. Just curious. All my images are marked "Copyright. All Rights Reserved", I just wondered if there was some small print about other Yahoo sites being able to use them.

Yes. And if someone was scarfing images which were tagged copyright off of Flickr, you could get thousands of Flickr users sending them letters and blogging and boycotting just by posting on one of the Flickr groups. They can be quite a militant bunch....

I suspect, if they've got any sense, that travelicious are only taking a feed of public photos which are tagged okay for commercial use.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Thanks for that. Just curious. All my images are marked "Copyright. All Rights Reserved", I just wondered if there was some small print about other Yahoo sites being able to use them.

You cannot rely on anything. YOUR copyright is YOUR copyright in any context or, form. But, it's up to you to protect it.

The biggest change in copyright law is just about to happen. So, keep your copyright symbol clear. And, keep an email contact or, telephone number obvious.

 

[Paul Russell]

I'm going to start carrying a big copyright symbol around with me and include it in every photo. Save's mucking around in Photoshop, etc.

You cannot rely on anything. YOUR copyright is YOUR copyright in any context or, form. But, it's up to you to protect it.

The biggest change in copyright law is just about to happen. So, keep your copyright symbol clear. And, keep an email contact or, telephone number obvious.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

I'm going to start carrying a big copyright symbol around with me and include it in every photo. Save's mucking around in Photoshop, etc.

Just another key or, summat.


Checkout the new 'orphans law' about to apply to any 'untraceable' image on the web!

 

[Vintage Paw]

Checkout the new 'orphans law' about to apply to any 'untraceable' image on the web!

I was reading about that a few months ago - is the gist of it that if someone takes one your your pics and posts it on their site but doesn't attribute it and then someone else comes along and uses it for anything they want they can because you are not contactable? Coz if so that is well shit.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Thanks for that. Just curious. All my images are marked "Copyright. All Rights Reserved", I just wondered if there was some small print about other Yahoo sites being able to use them.

I can't see anything in Flickr about that. As I said, the Flickr community can be quite militant on that sort of issue, so I imagine they'd be careful there (or else they'd lose their money-spinner i.e. the people who actually provide them with their content).

 

[laptop]

Copyright is your RIGHT!

http://www.londonfreelance.org/c-basics.html

UK copyright in 800 words

 

[laptop]

Checkout the new 'orphans law' about to apply to any 'untraceable' image on the web!

All I've seen is a proposal (in the Gowers report) that there be such a law. You've seen more? A draft?

Er, people I know, will be right in there doing our damnedest to ensure that it doesn't permit more corporate rip-offs. At the link above you'll find a proposal that there be a trust fund - that pays out to the author/photographer/composer when they do show up. And we think we have the backing of the European Commission to ensure that it's no worse than that.

 

[editor]

http://www.londonfreelance.org/c-basics.html

That page has got a really 'orrible squinty font, you know.

 

[laptop]

That page has got a really 'orrible squinty font, you know.

Eh?

H1 {
	font-family:"Gill Sans", "Humanst521 BT", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
...

P {
	font-family:"Gill Sans", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
...

Looks truly beauticious on a Mac with proper (Monotype) Gill Sans.

Humanst521 is a bastard Gill present on very few Windoze machines. You have a bad Helvetica on yours?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'm on a Mac (20" iMac) and it's a bit titchy for me to be honest. I'd up it another couple of points.

 

[laptop]

OK. Will, er, pass the message on

In the meantime:




(216k PDF)

 

[editor]

Humanst521 is a bastard Gill present on very few Windoze machines. You have a bad Helvetica on yours?

Nowt wrong with my fonts, but there's a lot wrong with specifying such a font in your code!

 

[Firky]

*goes off to delete flickr account*

I only had about 30 images on there anyway in three or four years