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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-13-2010, 06:08 AM
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Thanks! Probably true on all counts. . . I'm just hypersensitive to this. I'm realizing that I need to copyright a bunch of my big moneymakers, as I could get in big trouble with my stock agencies if some jerkola challenged my right to them after having stolen them from me and I couldn't "prove" they were mine. Sad world that we live in that those things actually happen. . .
Go get your own talent people! lol!
Anyhow, thanks to all who responded to my questions and helped me with the sharing option in my Smugmug gallery.
Cindy:)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-12-2010, 05:45 PM
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LOL! Yeah, I'd guess so. . .
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-12-2010, 04:36 PM
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Thanks Falconeye--I just changed my galleries to remove the Share option. I had kept it in many of my galleries so I could post a photo occasionally on dPreview, but apparently, that isn't even wise. . .
It makes me very sad to think that there are people out there who don't care about intellectual property. . .
Cindy
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-12-2010, 02:48 PM
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True (about the fact that most small images are of inferior quality for printing or exploitation,) but I find it absolutely appalling to believe that someone would actually download someone else's image to their computer "for the purpose of viewing it" and believe that that behavior was not stealing just as much as trying to sell it to someone else or pawn it off as your own work.
I have never downloaded someone else's image. I find it just as easy to go back to that website and re-view it over and over, rather than steal it so I can look at it at my leisure on my hard-drive. If you like someone else's photo that much, either buy it or send yourself a link and visit it whenever you like.
I sell my work to pay my bills, mortgage and put food on the table each week. If people are stealing said images to keep on their own hard drives, they're taking money away from me. I work hard at what I do and hope that none of my acquaintances and friends on flickr, Pentax Forums and dPreview are doing what you described.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-12-2010, 02:42 PM
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Well, thanks for explaining what you guys all meant. It originally came across from a couple of people as sounding a bit snide and jaded. An eventual watermark would be good I think. It's why I do post with PPG, and why I've stopped posting a lot on dPreview (I've had "helpful" members download my images and "fix them" the way they think they ought to be, which is just thoughtless and uncool without asking first, IMO.) If you send out a notice when you put the auto-copyrighting watermark on the gallery photos, Adam, I'd love to post. Thanks again everyone, Cindy
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-12-2010, 08:40 AM
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So, I guess I have my answer. . . I have to say that I am unimpressed that DTR took one of my images and then didn't bother to assure me that he or she had deleted it, despite my asking him/her to do so.
It sounds as if there will be no attempt at right-click protection (I still happen to believe that 90% of computer users and internet users DON'T even know how to do screen-shots (and what kind of size could one blow up a photo to if they were to steal it that way anyhow? It would be pathetic, printed out IMHO. . . Have fun making postcards with your stolen image, DTR. . .)
But I won't be posting any images to the exclusive photo gallery, especially with the reception I've gotten that has done everything to dissuade me from believing in the inherent goodness of the "other 10%.)
Cindy :mad:
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-12-2010, 04:37 AM
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How did you manage to download it? I hope you're going to delete it from your computer now?
This still doesn't give me an answer, however, as to whether there will be any attempt at right-click protection in the new exclusive photo gallery. I imagine that the general public probably doesn't know how to circumvent right-click protection, as you do. I'm sure there are people like you, who can figure it out, but it would certainly be nice to know that there was going to be some attempt at protecting the owners' photos in this new gallery.
Cindy
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-11-2010, 04:23 PM
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for me, the most important question is this: are these photos going to be right click protected? IE: in my smugmug gallery, I am able to choose that for my galleries, so no one can steal my images. If that isn't available here, I most likely wouldn't be submitting anything, I'm afraid! Can't wait to hear the reply! Cindy :confused:
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