Morel versus Getty and AFP in Court Today

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This should be excellent to watch unfold and I sure hope Daniel Morel prevails.

At the risk of offending someone, somewhere, I don't understand how anyone works for Getty Images without feeling guilty about it? I know photo jobs are hard to come by but if photographers stopped working with Getty on principal then we'd bring them down instead of helping them.

OK back to the Fuji-M9-Sony-DF debates....
 
Just another example of the rich getting richer at the expense of the working people. You see the worker will not be allowed to fully present his case so as to bias the jury and anyone deemed to know about Getty will not be allowed on the jury for cause.

We will become another banana republic if not careful as we are on the downslope already. Working people have made no wage gains beyond inflation for 30 years. Yet the bankers and super rich have gobbled vast amounts of national wealth. And when they screw up, the government bails them out with our tax money as they are too big to fail.

And I tend to be red, not blue.
 
Exactly why I DO NOT upload images, ANYWHERE!
Unless they would be interested in ****ty cell phone photo's of gear I have for sale!
 
Talk about the rich are getting richer indeed.

Looking even from "the-average-photographers-view" how things are "evolving" (I'd define it "degrading") in the web I wouldn't be surprised if Google will soon announce that they can use anything their search engine finds or stumbles on for any commercial purpose they'd like without even asking, since they'll own every popular source for the material or have some sort of "special" contract with the source we aren't aware of from the zillion pages of "user agreement changes" till the day you see your work stolen and wonder why you had to upload that pic.

With rapidly changing agreements and licencing one cannot fully trust the web at all these days.

If you want to show something to your friends (and not to worry anything to get stolen through some web's smart agreement/licencing tweaks) it looks to me we should go back shooting slides organizing a viewing evenings from the projector. An old fashion way of sharing and get together, with drinks 'n all 🙂
 
tsiklonaut said:
Talk about the rich are getting richer indeed.

Looking how things are "evolving" (I'd define it "degrading" though) in the web I wouldn't be surprised if Google will soon announce that they can use anything their search engine finds or stumbles on for any commercial purpose they'd like without even asking, since they'll own every popular source for the material or have some sort of "special" contract with the source we aren't aware of from the zillion pages of "user agreement changes" till the day you see your work stolen and wonder why you had to upload that pic.
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One can't really blame international capitalists for amassing as much capital as possible ...

... and anyway I expect we've all read and understood those pesky Terms and Conditions that periodically interrupt our web-browsing eh? ... so we have only ourselves to blame I suppose.
 
One can't really blame international capitalists for amassing as much capital as possible ..." I have to ad by legal means. Looking at the Banking sector and even at some film mfg I'd say the means were less than legal.

And honestly who can follow the constant changes of Terms and Conditions changes that are often made without informing the user despite the fact that they are legaly bound to inform the other party (user).

Getty and Corbis are a**hole of the first order and they are not about amasing capital but power "He who controlls the past owns the future" is the credo of those two.
 
I'll have to bring this to the attention of a friend of mine. We were discussing copyright because she was concerned over photos of her on a lesser-known online dating site might get misappropriated. She wasn't interested in privacy, just copyright. I had to explain to her that it's not joe schmoe on the internet you have to worry about stealing your photos ( creepiness factor aside, how much profit would you have lost if some guy prints out your photo and hangs it on his wall?), it's the big companies and media outlets misappropriating your artwork that's truly scary.
 
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