How Much Can You Protect Your Photographs on the Internet?

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Great article by a photographer on Newsvine about protecting your pictures online. The takeaway: “I don’t know of anything that will absolutely guarantee that no one will ever be able to take your image from the internet. . . . If you’re terribly concerned about your images being stolen don’t put them on the internet. It’s really that simple.” To me the conflict over copying on the net is a case of clashing norms. It’s a widely accepted practice on the net to use pictures you find elsewhere on the net to illustrate your blog, etc., even though doing so is clearly copyright infringement. The norm in the physical world is just the opposite; copying is not accepted. Laws tend to follow norms, so I wonder if we’ll see a change for copying photos/artwork the same way we have seen the accepted norm of search engine caching websites (basically copying the entire copyrighted contents of sites) become the law.

Mar 27, 2006 | Comments

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