Question on copyright

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A friend has been made to remove pics from facebook as it infringes copyright .
Now I don't know the first thing about law but he did not remove the water marks or try to pass them off as his own work so is he out of order or not??
My wife is at uni doing media (just finished first yr) and they can reproduce pics or use quotes as long as they acknowledge the original person responsible for the piece of work in question

Rob
 
Academic usage is generally accepted, it's a special case and academic rigour makes sure that the creator of the work is correctly acknowledged and referenced.

Someone on facebook ripping someone else image from the web and hosting it on their page is not only breach of copyright.. it's just rude. This type of ripping to facebook does not reference the creator of the work, and usually results in the image being compressed, degraded and so bodged about that it reflects very badly on the quality of the original. Ripping their image onto facebook isn't going to be seen as flattery by the creator of the work.

The way that images are ripped and rehosted for facebook is particularly bad, because the author of the work is unaware of this action and loses control over the image.
 
Alastair is right im afraid. Its just a bit unthinking of the hard work the tog put in to it.

It is rude not to ask permission and your friend is taking a silly risk. Should it be my photo, a letter would be on it way.

sorry
 
Alastair said:
Academic usage is generally accepted, it's a special case and academic rigour makes sure that the creator of the work is correctly acknowledged and referenced.

Someone on facebook ripping someone else image from the web and hosting it on their page is not only breach of copyright.. it's just rude. This type of ripping to facebook does not reference the creator of the work, and usually results in the image being compressed, degraded and so bodged about that it reflects very badly on the quality of the original. Ripping their image onto facebook isn't going to be seen as flattery by the creator of the work.

The way that images are ripped and rehosted for facebook is particularly bad, because the author of the work is unaware of this action and loses control over the image.
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I have litrally hundreds and hundreds copied onto facebook.. they cut legs off at the bottom or crop just themselves in the picture... if my watermark still shows then it looks like i have produced the complete mess thats showing.. I supplied some 450 pixel wide pics for a website.. next thing you know they are on facebook 730 pixels wide with my watermark looking a complete mess..

Alastair has it bang on .. none of these people asked..
 
I have just this week had Facebook remove 23 images from a girls Facebook page that were 'lifted' from my site.

They are all heavily watermarked and have 'great pic', 'superb photo' and 'you look great' comments.

I sell non watermarked 'Facebook' images for £4 and she has never bought an image or a print from me. I'm fairly easy going and I turn a blind eye to a few on a Facebook page, but 23! That's taking the P.

I'm going to need to count to 10 the next time I see her!
 
admirable said:
I have just this week had Facebook remove 23 images from a girls Facebook page that were 'lifted' from my site.

They are all heavily watermarked and have 'great pic', 'superb photo' and 'you look great' comments.

I sell non watermarked 'Facebook' images for £4 and she has never bought an image or a print from me. I'm fairly easy going and I turn a blind eye to a few on a Facebook page, but 23! That's taking the P.

I'm going to need to count to 10 the next time I see her!
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Out of interest, how did you find out that your images were on Facebook?
 
admirable said:
I have just this week had Facebook remove 23 images from a girls Facebook page that were 'lifted' from my site.

They are all heavily watermarked and have 'great pic', 'superb photo' and 'you look great' comments.

I sell non watermarked 'Facebook' images for £4 and she has never bought an image or a print from me. I'm fairly easy going and I turn a blind eye to a few on a Facebook page, but 23! That's taking the P.

I'm going to need to count to 10 the next time I see her!
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I gte mine removed if more than a couple... otherwise I cant be bothered anymore with one or two

trouble is.. offender then just drops you off friends or bars you from viewing pics and uploads the lot again.. had someone do that twice to me before they where threatened by facebook with account deletion.

there are a lot of pictures on facebook with STOLEN FROM KIPAX.COM in big bright green letters accross the middle.. even that ddint work.
 
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It's not hard, I do equine sports so if I go onto one showjumpers page they are all 'friends' so it's just a case of having a wee trawl through some of their 'friends'.

There are hundreds of my images on those sites and I don't mind one or two as it's not worth the hassle to report but what happens is word gets around that I'm having them removed and for the next week there is an increase in 'Facebook image' sales.

Once they are caught I try not to take any more shots of them at shows, it fairly hisses them off! :lol:

It's worth spending an hour every month or so having a look and report them. One good thing about Facebook is they are on the ball when it comes to removing them.
 
admirable said:
It's worth spending an hour every month or so having a look and report them. One good thing about Facebook is they are on the ball when it comes to removing them.
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yep 24hrs at the most :) not much to dispute when it has such a big bright watermark..
 
I regularly take pictures at a dance shw, and once had 36 of my images appear on someone facebook, i messaged her and asked for them to be removed, she refused and insited her mother took the pictures, thing is they had been print screened and then just put backon to her facebook, i have to say facebook cleared the lot within 2 days of me reporting them as my property. I didnt want to appear harsh but i informed the dance people and they were brilliant, acknowledging that the poerson could not have taken the images as no one else has access to the floor space like i do at the shows. As has been said by the time someones work appears on facebook the images has suffered compression and is generally not the same image.
 
smurf123 said:
Wow I didn't realise it was such a big thing going on
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Depends.. if your publshing pictures of next doors cat or plant pots or clouds.. chances are you wont get ripped off (no insult intended to plant pot togs) .. if your doing events then the chances are every man and his dog at the event.. or friends and family who know them..will want to take your picture for facebook :(
 
I also have had a few of my local football pictures being used illegally on FB. A kind request to remove them usually works. Some people don't think they have done anything wrong and you are just being an arse, you can't educate pork.
 
Alastair said:
Academic usage is generally accepted, it's a special case and academic rigour makes sure that the creator of the work is correctly acknowledged and referenced.
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so if the above criteria is met its ok then ?
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donutagain said:
Alastair said:
Academic usage is generally accepted, it's a special case and academic rigour makes sure that the creator of the work is correctly acknowledged and referenced.
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so if the above criteria is met its ok then ?
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If by criteria you mean academic use and correctly referenced.

Just referencing it properly on facebook doesn't make you an academic.
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admirable said:
It's not hard, I do equine sports so if I go onto one showjumpers page they are all 'friends' so it's just a case of having a wee trawl through some of their 'friends'.

There are hundreds of my images on those sites and I don't mind one or two as it's not worth the hassle to report but what happens is word gets around that I'm having them removed and for the next week there is an increase in 'Facebook image' sales.

Once they are caught I try not to take any more shots of them at shows, it fairly hisses them off! :lol:

It's worth spending an hour every month or so having a look and report them. One good thing about Facebook is they are on the ball when it comes to removing them.
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what annoys me is how much they spend on their pass time and yet they skimp on a few quid on the purchse of a facebook image.

we found a girl (she was ratted out by a mutual friend who sympathises with us) with 45 of ours all unpaid for screenshots with huge watermarking. a few months earlier we found her mother doing the exact same thing. we reported to facebook and they were all removed.

we refuse to shoot either of them at events now.
 
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