Comments on: SOPA & PIPA – Just A Healthy Curbing of Social Media’s Sense of Entitlement? http://www.slrlounge.com/sopa-pipa-just-a-healthy-curbing-of-social-medias-sense-of-entitlement Photography tips and photography tutorials and more Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:55:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Zack Jones http://www.slrlounge.com/sopa-pipa-just-a-healthy-curbing-of-social-medias-sense-of-entitlement#comment-42329 Zack Jones Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:35:00 +0000 http://www.slrlounge.com/?p=123454#comment-42329 I do love seeing my images used that’s why I’ve made all 14,000+ of them on flickr available under CC license. One way I find my images is to search my flcikr username on Google and see what pops up. Only once, so far, have I found one of my images being used without credit. I contacted the web master and asked him to either give me credit or remove the image. He elected to give me credit and has since used a number of my football images on his high school football web site. I suppose if I were a pro photographer I’d have a different attitude towards people using my work for free but since I shoot for the fun of it I don’t mind sharing.

]]> By: SLR Lounge http://www.slrlounge.com/sopa-pipa-just-a-healthy-curbing-of-social-medias-sense-of-entitlement#comment-42327 SLR Lounge Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:33:00 +0000 http://www.slrlounge.com/?p=123454#comment-42327 To be honest Zack it was not that scientific.  But to the best of my knowledge, (based on friends etc. reporting back to me) …that is the one image of mine that people have *probably* used the most without my permission.

I honestly don’t mind, but I would still LOVE to be able to keep track of where my images are being displayed online, wouldn’t you?  I’m not about to sue the pants off of every last blogger who shares a photo of mine, I mean talk about a terrible way to reward your biggest fans!  But I at least hope that in ~5 years, we can “lojack” our JPG’s somehow and follow them around the web.  Wouldn’t that be cool?  

=Matt=

]]> By: SLR Lounge http://www.slrlounge.com/sopa-pipa-just-a-healthy-curbing-of-social-medias-sense-of-entitlement#comment-42326 SLR Lounge Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:28:00 +0000 http://www.slrlounge.com/?p=123454#comment-42326 Stephanie that is a very important point.  I think they definitely need to scratch this bill and come up with something much more specific.  After reading some more tonight, it does sound like they’re throwing out the baby with the bath water with such sweeping generalizations.  Even though I think that the doomsday mentality is a little exaggerated, I understand that we shouldn’t just roll over and play dead.

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.slrlounge.com/sopa-pipa-just-a-healthy-curbing-of-social-medias-sense-of-entitlement#comment-42325 Stephanie Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.slrlounge.com/?p=123454#comment-42325 Another thing to keep in mind is, because of the vagueness of SOPA and
PIPA, the laws will be left to the courts to interpret through the
course of various lawsuits.  So courts in different circuits (i.e. the
divisions of federal courts around the US) may interpret the laws
differently.  Which means that we may have different “versions” of the
laws for various regions of the country until the Supreme Court steps in
and provides a uniform interpretation.

]]> By: Zack Jones http://www.slrlounge.com/sopa-pipa-just-a-healthy-curbing-of-social-medias-sense-of-entitlement#comment-42323 Zack Jones Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:45:00 +0000 http://www.slrlounge.com/?p=123454#comment-42323 How were you able to determine that’s your #1 most copyright-infringed image? Did you use a search service such as Tineye to look for other copies?

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