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”Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.“ –Mark Getty, founder of Getty Images https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Getty
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> Publish images with as hidden license requirements as possible What exactly was going on? Have they published images in misleading way? Or is it case of going after people who published images with "source: Internet"? Or case of attacking people who made honest effort to attribute author? Because I am familiar with big corporations using freely licensed work and ignoring attribution requirements. For example Facebo…
No, wrong target - big enterprises have lawyers of their own. The target goal here is the 13 year old that published a fan page on neocities. He won't defend himself, the parents will pay, and that the claimed image licensing costs are way higher than what usually can be claimed in such a situation they will not notice.
But large business/enterprise screws up with image licensing too, and ends up just paying as well.
Quick, pull the non-rate-limited API keys out of the unsplash desktop app with strings and start mirroring it from Tor (which they don't block). The images are public domain.
They are permissively licensed, but the photographers still own the copyrights. They are not public domain.
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Hmm, the text of the Creative Commons license is such that I would think such suits would be unsuccessful in court. Specifically, it has a section about reinstating your rights if you fix a violation of the license after you are notified. Has this ever been litigated? Of course receiving a demand letter is still a nuisance. If this is a problem that you have knowledge about, have you ever considered contacting Creati…
I actually was sued over this exact thing and lost (and paid quite a bit of money). All for a little UI experiment that nobody saw but me, google and (via google image search) these vultures.
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I remember reading that at the beginning,there was a requirement for a person to walk ahead of an automobile and alert others that it's coming. It was related to horse industry lobbying too.
> there was a requirement for a person to walk ahead of an automobile Yes. In the UK this requirement lasted until 1896 when it was removed by an act of Parliament [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotives_on_Highways_Act_18...
The 1896 Act removed some restrictions of the 1865 act and raised the speed to 14 mph (23 km/h). "
This reminds me of 500px. I used to be a huge fan of 500px. It was the most beautiful photography site on the internet, designed with attention to every tiny detail. It allowed you to share your photos under a CC license, presented them beautifully and had fantastic curated feeds with photos by fantastic photographers. In 2018 they were acquired by an investor company and partnered exclusively with Getty. As a contri…
That’s the business of stock photos. Unsplash managed to stick around because they provided free high quality images that were more “real” looking than stock photos. It was supported by ads, which I’m sure kept the site running but when Getty knocks on your door and offers to buy you out ... it’s hard to say no. The cycle will continue. In its place there will be a new Unsplash which will offer the same + a bit more…
Quick, pull the non-rate-limited API keys out of the unsplash desktop app with strings and start mirroring it from Tor (which they don't block). The images are public domain.
> The images are public domain. They are permissively licensed, but the photographers still own the copyrights. They are not public domain.
This reminds me of 500px. I used to be a huge fan of 500px. It was the most beautiful photography site on the internet, designed with attention to every tiny detail. It allowed you to share your photos under a CC license, presented them beautifully and had fantastic curated feeds with photos by fantastic photographers. In 2018 they were acquired by an investor company and partnered exclusively with Getty. As a contri…
We should just throw anti-trust out the window. It's a mess.