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Are you really trying to control the spread of a photo on the internet? I like exercises in futility too, but wowza on that one.
Copyright exists regardless of whether one thinks it’s simply an exercise in futility. As we teach kids, if you want to use something that’s not yours, ask permission to use it before you do.
The Boone River is lower now than it was a year ago. I didn’t think that was possible.
Somebody stole her image, removed her copyright signature and had a TV station giving photo credit to the guy that stole it. So, yeah, I get why she was mad. I assume an image search lead her here. It was posted innocently here via the internet spread of the guy who originally stole it. The member here who posted it quickly removed it, as I'd expect a responsible person to, and was no need for mods to do it. To add insult to injury the image was misrepresented as being Hurricane Milton.
FYI, think I got caught into this even though I am just a self-described "hack amateur hobbyist", aka HAH. I shared an owl picture with a someone who in turn was supposed to give me some print copies in return. And never heard from them again once they got my image with the copyright removed. I didn't think it was an image worth stealing so haven't followed up. Than again, my living isn't photography.
In this case our CF poster's use was pretty innocent. The guy that stole it and removed the copyright signature was "patient zero" and started the unsanctioned use.
The flipside is Getty claiming images in public domain, US Government images in particular, as theirs to claim ownership to sell. It's gone so far as to essentially kill the old Google image search to protect their corporate level image stealing. I've posted some photos my dad took in WWII and I fully expect them to show up for sale by someone.
Sounds like great due diligence by that TV station.
It sucks that the image was stole and cropped. Unfortunately, that is what the internet does. Trying to beat the speed and which people copy and paste is pretty challenging. Best of luck to anyone trying to enforce a copyright on the internet.
Rain looking unlikely for Saturday now? Forecast I saw this morning looks perfect at 77 and sunny.
Looks like frost on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning here in central Iowa. I can’t wait for that hard freeze to kill all these f***ing gnats. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s been so dry or what. Once harvest started all those little a**holes came out of the fields. We went to an orchard on Saturday and it was nearly unbearable.
28 this morning. Calling for 27 tomorrow morning.3 nights of frost in a row here.
5 frosty mornings so far.
5 frosty mornings so far.
We've had plenty of Thanksgivings hit the 60's or 70's. That's still a month and half out.
This is perfect weather right now (could use some rain though). High of mid 60's to low 70's. Lows in the 30s and 40s. Perfection.
Isn’t it great? Hoping for a repeat of last winter too.
