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Old February 5th 19, 11:33 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 11:00:40 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
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That's the fault of the evil Getty Images. They took Google to court for allowing people to view images on any website. Now a large proportion of the full resolution images are hidden - it used to be that clicking any image showed the full resolution. Most of them you can still right click and save, and you get the large image on your local hard disk, but some don't. Getty images are evil ****ing capitalist *******s, who believe that everyone should pay for their photos.



Well, you can't really blame them for pitting their vested interests
against other corporations like google, given that most photographers
out there are clueless copyright nazis who seriously believe that
copyright can be enforced on the internet.

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Old February 5th 19, 11:38 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:33:04 -0000, sobriquet wrote:

On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 11:00:40 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
[..]
That's the fault of the evil Getty Images. They took Google to court for allowing people to view images on any website. Now a large proportion of the full resolution images are hidden - it used to be that clicking any image showed the full resolution. Most of them you can still right click and save, and you get the large image on your local hard disk, but some don't. Getty images are evil ****ing capitalist *******s, who believe that everyone should pay for their photos.



Well, you can't really blame them for pitting their vested interests
against other corporations like google, given that most photographers
out there are clueless copyright nazis who seriously believe that
copyright can be enforced on the internet.


I don't follow you, you seem to be contradicting yourself.
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Old February 6th 19, 01:04 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

If people can easily obtain pictures for free, why would they
pay a stock company for pictures?


because not doing so is theft.
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Old February 6th 19, 01:16 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 1:04:16 AM UTC+1, nospam wrote:
In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

If people can easily obtain pictures for free, why would they
pay a stock company for pictures?


because not doing so is theft.


Ok, so if you download an image like this for free:

https://unsplash.com/photos/3dUpL1h97CQ

What you're really doing is stealing because you're not buying
a similar image from Getty Images instead (a bargain at 475€):

https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/fo...eld/1078212898


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Old February 6th 19, 01:25 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

If people can easily obtain pictures for free, why would they
pay a stock company for pictures?


because not doing so is theft.


Ok, so if you download an image like this for free:


if the entity who own the rights to an image says it's free, then
there's no issue. there are many such images.

not all images are free. if you download such an image without
appropriate payment, then there is an issue.

and even payment is not required, compensating the creator is the right
thing to do.

tl;dr don't be a mooch.
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Old February 6th 19, 01:36 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 1:25:09 AM UTC+1, nospam wrote:
In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

If people can easily obtain pictures for free, why would they
pay a stock company for pictures?

because not doing so is theft.


Ok, so if you download an image like this for free:


if the entity who own the rights to an image says it's free, then
there's no issue. there are many such images.

not all images are free. if you download such an image without
appropriate payment, then there is an issue.

and even payment is not required, compensating the creator is the right
thing to do.

tl;dr don't be a mooch.


The entity who owns the rights to an image might sound reasonable,
except we're talking about images on the internet that might be in
a wide range of countries simultaneously, each with different laws
and regulations and for the most part these countries are fake
democracies as a storefront for shady corporate interests.

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Old February 6th 19, 01:46 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default best site to obtain public domain images

In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

If people can easily obtain pictures for free, why would they
pay a stock company for pictures?

because not doing so is theft.

Ok, so if you download an image like this for free:


if the entity who own the rights to an image says it's free, then
there's no issue. there are many such images.

not all images are free. if you download such an image without
appropriate payment, then there is an issue.

and even payment is not required, compensating the creator is the right
thing to do.

tl;dr don't be a mooch.


The entity who owns the rights to an image might sound reasonable,


it is reasonable.

except we're talking about images on the internet that might be in
a wide range of countries simultaneously, each with different laws
and regulations


laws do vary, however, stealing other people's work is illegal just
about everywhere.

and for the most part these countries are fake
democracies as a storefront for shady corporate interests.


no.
  #18  
Old February 6th 19, 01:49 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
sobriquet
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On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 1:36:58 AM UTC+1, sobriquet wrote:
On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 1:25:09 AM UTC+1, nospam wrote:
In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

If people can easily obtain pictures for free, why would they
pay a stock company for pictures?

because not doing so is theft.

Ok, so if you download an image like this for free:


if the entity who own the rights to an image says it's free, then
there's no issue. there are many such images.

not all images are free. if you download such an image without
appropriate payment, then there is an issue.

and even payment is not required, compensating the creator is the right
thing to do.

tl;dr don't be a mooch.


The entity who owns the rights to an image might sound reasonable,
except we're talking about images on the internet that might be in
a wide range of countries simultaneously, each with different laws
and regulations and for the most part these countries are fake
democracies as a storefront for shady corporate interests.


Besides, we're also talking about creative freedom he
https://i.imgur.com/9Z4HHMr.jpg

Like the freedom to cut images from a magazine and glue them
together in a composite or using photoshop to mash up images
found online to create new images.
Given the wealth of images available online, it's completely moot
to argue about who owns the rights to which image.

If necessary you can just share your art anonymously and
then who gives a **** who these images you recycled originally
belonged to?

https://i.imgur.com/zW9jTe9.jpg
 




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