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RE: Photographers - Let's Educate Users About Correct Image Usage
It is going to be everywhere @dmcamera . You cannot get away from this and be in a photography utopia.
I have learned the hard way a long time ago. Whatever you have post to the Internet (and with technology enhancement), it is never really yours anymore (in some ways).
My images have been marketed on the Internet for over 20 years now, so I'm not in any kind of Utopia. I have about 7,000 images online in all. But because something is on the Internet does not mean I have ceased to own it.
That's like saying you have parked your car downtown, so you don't own it anymore because someone could take it.
I know that there is a sense of entitlement in the world today, but I don't agree with it. I believe that people should work for what they receive.
Just because something is easy and available does not make it right to take it. I'm not going to call right wrong and wrong right, just because it would make for a more peaceful existence.
I have been fighting against copyright infringement for many years. This did not change when I joined Steemit!
There is zero tolerance on here against plagiarism (which is not illegal) but an acceptance for copyright infringement (which is illegal.) That is just plain wrong.