I think that setting up your own website is the best thing. But, Flickr
never stole anyone's photos, what happened is that companies looking for
free photos go to sharing sites and just take them. Many people on Flickr
have high res images on there that are commercially usable, while
photographers with their own sites know to resize the photos down to a size
that looks good on screen but not in print....so people wanting it have to
ask for it and pay if the photographer wants payment.
Flickr does not take your copyright so you are safe there. If you want to
use it just make sure that you put on your Flickr pages that the images are
copyrighted and not free so that visitors to the site won't be tempted to
make commercial use of them without your permission. And size them to
something that doesn't look good in print, like 640x480 pixels. Someone
could still steal them for web use, but there's no way around that, and the
worst offenders seem to be using images for printed ad campaigns.
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Fort Wayne, Indiana
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
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On 11/5/07 7:50 PM, "Mike Butler" <om2s.usr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> A few days ago there was some talk about Flikr and other photo sharing sites
> that as I recall, was more centered around the user interface. I was just
> asked which sites do not try to take your copyright? Someone here mentioned
> Smugmug for ease of use, how does it fare for copyright issues?
>
> I seem to remember a recent lawsuit against Flikr for selling the photo of a
> young girl at a church function that was subsequently doctored and used to
> sell condoms or some such. I have heard similar issues with Snapfish, Kodak
> and others. What can we do short of setting up our own website?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Mike Butler
> Dublin, California
>
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