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Re: Re: Re: RFC: Picture Copyrights
by Shade (Shade@Gothcult.com)
on Jul 04, 2002 - 09:15 AM
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Actually, Necromancer just voiced the same thought I had, but the only way I can think of to implement it would be so easy to overcome as to just be silly. Using style sheets, you could actually make cetrain that the 'theft tag' was actually covered for normal viewieng. Namely, add a black border around the whole thing with the words "Stolen from Shmeng this photo copyright the artist/photographer" on it. But hell, you don't even need photoshop to overcome that...I'view comes with a basic crop image option.
Other than that I think the biggest thing we can all do here is probably just cope. Welcome to the digital age. Dev, add a disclaimer of liability to the page where you post the pic so everyone has to check the box and agree to release you from liability for photo theft and admit they are aware that placing their art/photos digitally does in fact hold certain risks. Run it past Arthegarn to make sure you not actually saying it's OK to steal those same pics, and we can all get on with our lives.
Sindel, sue the shit out of them if they steal your photo, in your case that image is actually your stock in trade so it's a serious case, kind of like Feral's art. Same thing for Vamp. If someone snags my pic and uses it, I'd just write the sysop of whatever site they were on and then politely ask the user to remove it. If they refused I'd have fun abusing them.
Quite honestly there are a thousand things we can do to try and protect ourselves, but there are about two that will work. One: accept it as a fact of the digital age and move through the joke, or two: don't post the pictures. Personally I enjoy the galleries primarily because it's fun to have a face to put with the voice, and in the case of the artwork, especially like Feral's or Bettie's stuff, I love that I get to see these artists work so early on. It's like getting to swing on the velvet rope in the museum. Or something like that...I will admit I occassionally get worried about how much of a meat market Sindel's pics get turned into. Sure it's a marvelous ego boost thing for her, but at fifteen, if I had this much attention paid to my body, I have run the risk of not showing my mind, but that's an entirely different subject.
I guess what I'm saying is I can't really see any effective way to stop the theft, but I don't see it as a reason to stop posting pics as well. It's just a risk of using computers, like crossing the street in a city, you may get hit by a car, but does that keep any of us confined to just one block?
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