Universities and image copyright theft

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da8iwr

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    Its amazing that the most "respected" institutions and bodies have no worries or concerns over copyright theft but then lecture in the legalities of law and how it should be implemented.

    I Sued the university of Newcastle £3.5K for taking one of my images of Flickr and using it for their home page banner and won.
    http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=138110
    and
    http://www.newworlddesigns.co.uk/temp/copyright-infingement/Tyne_bridge_image_violation.pdf

    And then today i see that the University of Sunderland are using images without paying for them on their website!
    (Calendar Pic taken from Istockphoto)
    http://blogs.sunderland.ac.uk/aboutus/category/win-win-/win/competitions/
     
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    The universities are to blame but in some ways it is a sin of omission rather than of commission: they omit training and paying staff enough to run websites properly.
    I very much doubt any of the lecturers in law at Newcastle or Sunderland are either involved with the website content and upkeep, or would condone these breaches of the law. (Altho' with academics you never know...)
     
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    drounding

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    I can't believe that the person who posted that calendar entry couldn't have been aware that iStockphoto owned rights to the image - the watermark's big enough to see.

    Perhaps some educational institutions think that they are covered by different copyright laws due to their educational association.
     
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    da8iwr

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    Liybpg said:
    I just wonder, how did you find out that they were using your images?
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    Hi There
    I used http://www.tineye.com/ which you can download a plugin that installs into firefox allowing you to right click on an image and it will check the rest of the internet it has indexed and search for others the same or similar.

    :)
     
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    MASSEY said:
    I think i might take a load of pictures copyright them in the hope some one steals them, theres good money in it
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    The common misunderstanding of copyright is that it must have a copyright symbol or the name on the image, when this is not the truth. Every image is owned one way or other by somebody, it maybe released openly and freely to the public to use under a creative licence for example, but the rest are not.

    There has just been a recent law change that now says orphaned images, ones where after using sites such as tineye and others cannot find the owner, you can pay money to the patent office at the going rate and they will hold incase the real owner comes forward.

    Its a very controversial situation and one that deserves its own thread or forum of its own.

    But if you take photos, they are instant your copyright, even with out credits written anywhere. :)
     
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    da8iwr said:
    But if you take photos, they are instant your copyright, even with out credits written anywhere. :)
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    No thanks to NuLabs (what a bunch of *******) digital bill, eh ? Well done to Ian for the slapping.

    Dawg said:
    The universities are to blame but in some ways it is a sin of omission rather than of commission: they omit training and paying staff enough to run websites properly.
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    There is no excuse for institutions to be lazy slack arse muppets, they get funding they just need to get professional, can't afford to do it properly...says buckets about the institution concerned...you reap and...
     
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