Why you don't post photos that are not yours...

[_Joseph]

http://www.jeremynicholl.com/blog/2011/ ... ringement/

Read the blog and get a better understanding why you don't steal the intellectual property of others. The offender here used the photo less than 500 pixels wide. Cost them a lot. The copyright was registered and the owner took action.

You can bet your life l-dsinc and its entities have their work registered and all those lawyers ready to take action. If they let it build a bit and show a history of posting 'appropriated' photos you also put both the site and yourselves in the position for criminal prosecution.

Get permission to use the photos or use your own. Who knows? Maybe someone will steal your photo and use it in a way you do not like?

[_Buffalo]

[_Joseph]

http://www.jeremynicholl.com/blog/2011/ ... copyright/

Pretty typical of crooks and those with similar inclinations when they get caught. Blame everyone and everything but their own illegal actions.

[_Polygamy-Porter]

Seriously Joseph?? Quite a stretch there.

We aren't talking about the photographer getting $32K because some anonymous poster linked to Maisel's famous photograph.

We are talking about someone who was using the image for financial gain. In the article you LINKED to, Andy Baio DID go get permission to reproduce the music, but did not ask to use the photograph used on that album.

A long time ago in an analogue universe far, far away, a young man called Jay Maisel photographed Miles Davis in a New York club. The picture became the cover of Davis’ Kind Of Blue, probably the biggest selling jazz album of all time, and one of Maisel’s most famous images.

In 2009 another young man, Andy Baio, created Kind Of Bloop, a chiptune version of the Davis classic. He also used a pixel art version of Maisel’s image, “the only thing that made sense for an 8-bit tribute to Kind of Blue”. Baio was careful to obtain and pay for all the permissions needed to reproduce the music. However he didn’t bother to even call Maisel over the photography: you see, he felt he could just take it.

In early 2010 Maisel found the 8bit version of his image, moved straight to no. 6 of the ten rules of US copyright infringement, and called his lawyers. Seven months later Baio settled out of court for $32,500 plus legal fees: last week he told his side of the story on his blog.