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How do you handle your shots being blogged by others?
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Well, this might be a little bit off-topic but as I feel very connected to the members of this group I'm interested in your opinion. Especially as I know that some of you get paid for shooting and do upload some of these shots here on Flickr.
So, how do you handle if your shots get blogged by others. Especially if strangers blog them.
How do you feel? Do you allow blogging in general or disable that function?
Have you added some creative commons to your images?
What if paid shots get blogged by others?
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Marion
Posted at 6:02PM, 18 December 2005 PDT
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If they ask, I say no. But how do you know if they don't ask? How do you disable blogging function?
Posted 78 months ago.
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I googled up my name and one of my shots got used without my permission twice in the past.
I don't want to sound displeased but I really would have appreciated if I was asked in advance. Or if they even would have let me known afterwards. But I only found out about it by accident.
And I think there's also still a difference if someone posts something like 'Look, I found this great shot of...' or uses an image just to illustrate his own words.
You can disable the blogging function in your account. There's a topic 'blogging' at the bottom of your account site.
Posted 78 months ago.
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thanks, Marion. and I agree there is a big difference.
Lucky you can google your name. There's a minor Actress with the same name as me so if I google my name I find out all kinds of information on her =o(
Posted 78 months ago.
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MatthewA [deleted] says:
I've had a few shots used by bloggers but it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
The reason it's no big deal to me whether they ask or not is that they have been used only in blogs, which by nature have not been commercial endeavors. If someone was trying to make money off of my image without asking, wel, that's a whole other story :)
Posted 78 months ago.
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I'm with Matthew, as long as it's not for a commercial use and they include a credit, it doesn't bother me so much.
Just this morning a friend IM'd me to tell me that she saw a (non-food) shot of mine on a blog and not only did they include credits, they had the courtesy to even link to my main portfolio site. Hey, looks like free exposure to me :)
Posted 78 months ago.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this issue.
I still feel a little bit torn between feeling honored and feeling pissed at the same time. But after temporalily disabling the blogging function I enabled it again after all.
Posted 78 months ago.
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If asked, I invariably say yes, and even when not asked it doesn't really bother me. I've now started using a Creative Commons licence (non-commercial).
I think you have to take a pragmatic view. As soon as you publish images on the Internet, there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop people copying them and using them elsewhere (other than constantly scouring the Internet and ruthlessly hounding offenders).
So, if you can't stop it, why not embrace it and see it as a positive thing. flickr's TOS require a link back to your flickr pages, so you could consider it free exposure and publicity. It's also quite nice to know that someone liked your photo enough to want to use it.
After all, most bloggers are just ordinary people writing about things just because they love doing it. Most people on flickr are just ordinary people who photograph things because they love doing it. As two communities, perhaps we should support each other.
On the other hand, if you are a professional photographer and are concerned that unlicenced use of your images will erode their value, then you really shouldn't be posting them on flickr (or indeed, anywhere else on the public Internet).
Posted 78 months ago.
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I don't think it's such a bad thing to have one's images posted to a blog. I think asking before posting is the best way to go, but if I saw one of my images on someone's blog, I'd only be upset if a) the blog itself was problematic in subject or b)if I wasn't given credit for the image.
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