RE: Incredible You! - Connect To The Moment And Enhance Your Power With Sound
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ALERT
@cryptogee, you are in violation of copyright for posting those images. You should remove them or comply with the licenses where applicable.
@steemcleaners, this account is posting a lot of stock images and images found on the web. The account needs to be investigated for a history of copyright infringement and abuse.
Here are links to the original images posted above. @cryptogee has neither linked to the sources, nor attributed them to anyone but (presumably) himself, nor is there any "fair use" of these images for commentary or educational use. @crpyogee is a professional blogger and is using these images for commercial use.
Megaphone (stock image):
http://www.istockphoto.com/photo/listen-gm157330850-6031055
Yoga man (stock photo):
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-4269617/stock-photo-young-man-meditating-yoga-in-lotus-position
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-man-meditating-yoga-in-lotus-position-royalty-free-image/100392626
Microsoft's quiet room from Business Wire (press release):
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151015006693/en/
Lake man (stock photo):
http://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-world-at-rest-gm157404674-7706240
Since @cryptogee expects to make money on this post, it is a commercial use of the images. I have posted extensively about this issue on Steem, including this one about the dirty secrets of posting stock images.
Example of a fair use: If @cryptogee was just commenting about Microsoft's anechoic chamber, there might be a reason to discuss it and use the image above to help his commentary. Instead, all of these images are there for what I call Eye Candy, which for stock photos means that a license needs to be obtained and paid for.
OH and on top of that, I have actually paid for photos in the past, so chill out with your accusations dude.
Cg
First of all why not contact me directly instead of shouting all over my blog.
Secondly, the pictures I use are always in the public domain, for instance the anechoic chamber, was taking from a Russian blogging site, and there are quite literally hundreds of photos of that chamber sitting for free on the web.
The other stock photos you posted, I was not aware were stock, as I found them on various blogs, unwatermarked. I tend to stay away from stock photography for this very reason.
Lastly, you have linked to a royalty free image, meaning I can use it, so chill out and try talking next time, rather than immediately taking this hyper-aggressive stance.
Cg
I need to educate you here! You happen to be way wrong on your understanding of the Royalty Free License!Royalty Free does not mean Free! I'm going to shout this from the rooftops till someone gets the message! You are not alone. Many others on here need to learn about image licensing! I've been a stock photographer for over 20 years, (and MOST of my images are ROYALTY FREE, so I happen to know a thing or two about how you can use my stock images, or the images of my peers!
Royalty Free means that once you have paid a license for an allowed usage, you are free to use the image again without paying again for the licensing. Royalty free images can license from anything up to $600 per image! Again Royalty Free images are not free!
Allowed usage for any stock images, whether you have paid for them or not, does not allow insinuating the images are yours by giving no source for it in a blog. In any case, Steemit is for-profit, so usage (even paid) does not allow for profit from the images, so giving a source will not help you (and it certainly will not pay the photographer's bills.) And do you think that because you paid for some image somewhere in the past, means that these photographers will be happy? They likely could care less. Please stop and think about it!
Also you say you find an image that someone else is already using on a blog and take it from there without checking the source? It is so easy to check the TRUE SOURCE of an image! Drop it into Tineye and check for the stock sites it's on - and if it's on any, or on someone's private photography page - you can't use it!
And please don't think it doesn't hurt my income (or the income of my peers) if an image is used without paying. Some clients will search the web first to see how an image is being used. If it is all over the place on blogs, or if the image is being used in a way inconsistent to what they want to use the image for, they may not want to license my image after all. And all because someone thinks an image is so great that they have to take it and maybe give the photographer credit!
I am not sure which images were pointed out to you, but I can tell you now that the image of the guy doing yoga is not only a Getty Image, it is also Restricted in its usage. (Fee paying clients are restricted from using that image in certain ways, so how can you know what the restrictions are if you have not contacted Getty?)
I'm pretty new on Steemit, but I am learning very quickly that people are quick to shout if someone is taking their written word, but at the same time they see nothing wrong with taking images that are not theirs and using them for eye candy! I may not end up being very popular, but I believe that education on this subject is critical for Steemit to survive as a legitimate site, respected by all. I intend to fight the image plagiarism as hard as others are fighting written plagiarism!
I apologise and will remove the yoga picture, thanks for clearing that up.
Cg
Education on the use of imagery is badly needed. I just explained the same thing about Royalty Free on a comment a couple of days ago because someone was stating that he could use RF images because they are free. In a famous case in the business recently, a blogger had to pay $7,000 for the unauthorized usage of an image. Why take the chance when there are legitimate sites where you can get free imagery? I personally know that it's not a risk worth taking. Stock photographers use Tineye all the time to search for where their images are being used on the web, so it's just a matter of time before they happen to search on the particular images a blogger is using. Agencies use web crawlers. It's like playing Russian Roulette!
Awesome! Thanks for your support. I hope you understand that it's not easy to stand up to the +70 reputation folks and I apologize if my post was too negative. I'd like to be supportive of those who change course, so I am in the process of upvoting your responses and I appreciate the discussion we had, heated or otherwise.
I even left you a final parting statement over on the chat.
I am a bad photographer and a worse graphic artist, so I greatly appreciate the good stock images out there. @dmcamera is a really fine photographer, and new to Steem, so I want her to prosper. I'd like her to post more good stuff... and not run around being the police all the time.
Steem on @cryptogee!!!