RE: Daily Photo Selection 📷 July 7th 2017
@photo-trail, please support original photos on Steem. You are promoting users who pretend to be photographers when they are really just copy-pasting.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ALERT
@photo-trail, you are in violation of the copyright for posting images which you do not license. You should remove them or comply with the licenses.
@steemcleaners, this account is posting a lot of stock images and images found on the web.
Since @photo-trail expects to make money on this post, it is a commercial use of the image(s) and therefore only photos licensed for commercial use can be used. I have posted extensively about this issue on Steem, including this one about the dirty secrets of posting stock images.
Here is a list of non-original photos posted on this page with links to their source.
Here is the Osprey... https://leighdiprosephotography.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/getting-up-early-pays-off/ (Edited... sorry!) (Doh! Nice photo, too! Glad @myday is here on Steem!)
The lightning photo is a Stock photo: http://www.fotosearch.com/CSP994/k16382136/
Copyright Infringement by @photo-trail
In addition to this, your Garfield image is in violation for a couple of reasons. Since it comes from Glitter-Graphics.com, you need to use this as a guide:
This means that you cannot post this image on your commercial blog.
Furthermore, the artist and creator of Garfield, Jim Davis, would need to license the re-use of his characters. (He is, in effect, the "image owner.") This is not free use, especially on a commercial blog post. As such, the person creating the animated image was herself in violation of copyright.
You should come clean and stop doing this!
Thank you for your contribution @uruiamme. I'm doing my best to support original content and struggling authors, but I cannot check every photo. I have to believe to the authors who says they send their own photos. If someone is caught cheating, he will never be featured again. Lightning photo is obviously edited photo from your link, and @julee will be removed and blacklisted until she proves the authorship.
@myday is original author of the osprey photo – he is Leigh Diprose, which is visible from his Steemit header, and you can check it.
As of Garfield image… it is usual that in case of non-free commercial usage there is a copyright symbol. There was none on that Garfield image and therefore it could be considered it was free use with the signature of source. Your link to FAQ says it isn’t and it will be removed.
Thank you again and please keep checking for cheaters.
Thanks for clearing up the Osprey by @myday! I edited my reply, above.
The thing I want you to understand is that "Fair use" would not help you take most images and plop them onto your blog (See my linked page, above). I know there are a lot of "meme" type images, taken out of context, and they are somewhat derivative images based on movies. I will leave that (long) discussion for a later day, but I believe most of those animated GIFs and memes are subject to fair use claims by those who post them.
In the case of Garfield, my understanding is that there is no fair use. A person has manipulated an artwork, or reproduced a likeness of the artwork, of a famous cartoonist. Without permission. They do this with no commentary of the image. Instead, they are making derivative works which attempt to be just as nice/funny/cute as the cartoonist's works. The cuteness is in the derivative image stapled to your web page. (Just as a licensed Garfield pencil or notepad would be.)
Here's a test: Can the Garfield work be entered into a local "art show" as an original work? No.
The memes? Like Eddie Murphy tapping his forehead with a caption? Can I show a collection of these things? I say, yes. The creativity is in the words of the meme, which generally amount to a fair use of a frame from the movie. Even without a caption, just using the still image in the middle of a conversation... is a fair way of adding my own creative flair to the conversation.
As for finding the offending pictures... please chat with me for a solution. Same username over at Steemit.chat. It's not hard at all.
I'd love your help! You look at so many things in #photography.