People have the rights to their photos. Yet it seems very easy for anyone to copy and paste a photo and call it their own. I am interested in knowing just how many people have stolen a photograph claimed it?
Is there has a difference between down loading a photograph for a back ground or screen saver and down loading a photo to make a framed print? Perhaps there is no difference. Maybe it takes selling another persons photograph for it infringe on the copyright laws. I took a look at guidelines for being a Flickr.com member and a gettyimages.com member; here is what their sites had to say.
Yahoo! respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Yahoo! has no responsibility for content on other web sites that you may find or access when using Yahoo!’s products or services. Material available on or through other web sites may be protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of the United States and/or other countries. The terms of use of those web sites, and not the Yahoo! Terms of Service, govern your use of that material. It is Yahoo!’s policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Yahoo! and/or others.
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable laws, Getty Images has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at Getty Images' sole discretion, account holders who infringe the intellectual property rights of Getty Images or any third party.
Both companies explain them selves well. Click this link Flickr’s Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy to read more and to read more about gettyimage’s Copyright infringement Policy click this link.
This is still an open topic of discussion. I will find the details of copyright laws and break them to decide if the laws should change or if the fit with the digital era.
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