| Subject: Re: Use of Photos |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 22/07/2009, 02:58 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Jul 21, 3:35 pm, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote:
Desert Shadow wrote:
How can Google load something that was paid for by a private party?
Same way a photographer might take your picture.
He (they) license the limited usage rights to you
and retain the rights to do whatever the agreement
says they can do.
Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke
www.n0eq.com
Generally professional photographers retain the rights to their
photos. If you pay for a shoot, you can't just willy nilly go off an
make a copy of the image without violating the copyright. There are
also situations regarding derivatives, i.e. thanks to photoshop you
can combine images, and the situation gets sticky if every image in
the compilation is not your own. Worse yet, the person who combined
the images has rights to that compilation. Copyright law is a mine
field. Throw in the mix "fair use" and "creative commons."
You would think GeoEye would just shoot the base and produce their own
image file with some clever anti-theft scheme.