wish id never heard about copyright (10 posts)

  • dang, wish i had never heard about  infringing with photos by using other peoples  pictures without permission…..

    …i need  some  fun  posts on my  facebook and there are so many  great ones flying  around  on   pinterest!!!  that i probably  shouldnt use…..  but  everyone  else   seems  to  be  using them  with abandon….

  • On the pages I manage I’m only using photos I took, where my customers have rights, or which I bought from stock.

    Considering that Pinterest is still a blurry medium with regards to copyright, I would especially be careful taking pictures out of Pinterest for my FB page.

  • You can share the Pinterest link.  But I wouldn’t do a control-c on the picture and then post it.  It doesn’t look as good when you post the link of the picture but it is a work-around.  

  • On your personal profile is one thing, on a business page is another. Pinterest is like facebook personal pages, no one is really profiting. Business using images without rights are in a way profiting from the image in their marketing. They as a business also have deeper pockets to be picked by lawyers :-)  

  • @annfurnivall  I agree that great digital content is infinite. Unfortunately, content creators are due their copyrights. Ann, you may want to look into a photo subscription plan with one of the large photo houses. This will give you the licensing rights to use an assortment of interesting photos in your business communications without worrying about copyright issues per se. Subscription plans run the spectrum depending on volume of use and which photo house you use. Do a Google search to identify your options. Hang in there. There’s always a solution to perceived problems.

  • Speaking as professional photographer who has invested thousands of dollars and hours in equipment and work, copyright is something I have to explain to clients on a daily basis.  There is a big difference in a photograph and a snapshot, yet the perception seems to be that photos should be a free for all . . . after all, the camera took the picture!  Instead of subscribing to stock sites, why not contact the photographer directly and ask permission to use the photo on your site with a credit and link back to their site. 

  • One suggestion I would recommend is to work directly with local photographers! You can post a message on Craigslist or in the newspaper, or find out places that would let you put up a flyer. I did that for a project a few years back. The best part about it is that most photographers, if you’re willing to work directly with them, are happy to sit down and talk about your needs. As a marketer, this was awesome as they were also able to use their local knowledge to maximize the effectiveness of the campaign. It was more expensive then iStock, but I think worth it in the long run. And does anyone seriously think the perfectly made up models sitting at desks are really what your staff looks like? :)

  •  thanks…i like the dorky jokes on  pinterest…..  my  stuff has  been copied and sent to china…so i  know what  you  mean..im  not interested in stock photos….or  hiring  a photographer for  the  small  needs i have right now…….

    .. @andrea-vahl are you saying i can put  a pinterest picture on  my business  facebook?    thats  all i  want to  do…i would  be glad to give  credit…altho most  dont have any identity on them….. and  i will try and  figure out what a control c  means….thats not in my  vocabulary….thank  you thank  you!!!

    @jasonreilly..thanks…..i might think about a photographer   for a big project  but probably  not  this…

    i can  find a lot of  vintage photos…and i  use those sometimes

  • Copyright is one of my passions – you have to be so careful not to infringe other people’s work., no matter what that is. If you want to use something from Pinterest which I did recently in my healthy food ideas in schooldaysmagazine.com – simple just contact the person who originally posted and ask their permission! In this instance they gave me permission. As a thank you I included their website URL and they in turn have posted the page to their networks. Also remember that any photos with children in them, you must have parental or guardian written permission for them to be reproduced unless they come from a stock library that you have paid to use their photos. This is to protect the family and it is bad manners not to ask someone if you can post their image.

  • @schooldaysmag i hear  you elizabeth…and  thats about howi understand it too…… then  you see  all these images  floating around   all the  blogs and   fb  pages…with no  watermarks  etc..and  millions picking up images off google….  so  who is  really worried about it?   …. i really like the   fun dog pictures, etc… im not  into kid pictures…but i sure have  seen  tons floating  on pinterest… i feel like a  real minority  worrying about this…..

    and im  hoping  andrea  had a good  reason to say it was ok to  put pinterest  on  facebook…which i think she said above….


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