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[Ron Musgraves]

Well, extend a bit of professional courtesy and pick one of those 'million' photos... if you have been asked 'nicely', do the right thing.

Your justifications related to the 'world wide web', 'giving permission to the entire world', 'YOU essentially gave it away by... not copyrighting it' are weak and absurd - you're not going to get much support here.

Its Funny, look at his profile Steven, you would likely ban him

 

[Steven Button]

Its Funny, look at his profile Steven, you would likely ban him

... noted, and action taken.

 

[Christopher]

I took a look at that profile, Wow. How rude and what an attitude towards a bbs that he is trying to learn from, talk about biting the hand that is trying to feed you.

 

[KGILL]

I recently had an issue where a photo owned by someone appeared on a webmasters account we use to make montages/videos/brochures. The vast majority of these photos are licensed by the company "godaddy" and are photos used to make websites.

Well after using the photos in some stills on a story/video I was contacted and told to remove the photo since it belonged to this person.

The world wide web, is simply that! WORLD WIDE. If I type in the term "power wash" as an advertising company and find some stills like those that are used on my site and they are not stamped, that means you are giving permission to the entire WORLD to use those photos.

If you do not want your photos used STAMP YOUR PHOTO. If you dont you are essentially putting them in a grab bag for the world to use in videos/brochures/their websites/ or even misleading others to believe that YOUR WORK is THEIR WORK.

Companies like Godaddy.com have a virtual library of photos for you to use on your sites and I wonder how many of those belong to someone else?

If your photo shows up later down the road on someones brochure YOU essentially gave it away by posting to a huge database (the net) and not copyrighting it. Calls for copyright infringement cant be met when youve never made a claim to it being YOURS. STAMP YOUR PHOTOS. Avoid a future problem for everyone.

Here is an article on how to stamp your photos.....

http://www.ehow.com/how_2148939_name-stamp-photos.html

Unfortunately it appears that everyone disagrees with your logic. I am glad this is the case. I know while I was getting my degree at ODU I had to cite everything that was not mine. Meaning, if I used a quote from an article I found on the internet I had to show where I got it from. Had I failed to do that, I could get kicked out for plagerism. My wife is currently working on her disertation for a PhD and the same is true for her.

As it is, I am about to start a marketing campaign and need some better quality pictures. Therefor I am going to ASK to use some pictures from some contractors that I talk to. I would never dream of just lifting the pictures from a pool of photos or somebody's website.