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by WorldWideWayne 4360 days ago
> and the same thing is a huge deal in the photography world.

Is it big enough to start deploying the lawyers? That's what software companies have to do. If you're not doing that, then it must not be a big enough deal to you. If you CAN'T do that, then I think you should get out of the biz.

But, I bet you won't because you are probably getting something more than money out of your career. Maybe you enjoy the work. If it were all about money, you would have become a banker, right?

No sympathy here either. You have no natural right to get paid every single time one of "your" images is used. (Oh and who owned the stuff you took a picture of? Should you pay them to photograph it? Should they get paid every time the image is used?) With no natural rights, you have to use the legal system. Nobody cares if you sue some big corporation, but please...complaining about people posting stuff to imgur.com? What money was lost because your image showed up there? Did you try sending them a cease and desist? I bet they'd take it right down. If you don't do that, then you're not trying hard enough.
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stevekemp 4360 days ago
OK so you don't believe that people should be rewarded for their creativity, that people should have their licenses honoured in any field of endeavour.

I have sent cease and desists in the past, in the same way that I've sent DCMA takedown notices against people who post documentation I've written with no attribution, and against people who've forked my code and pretended to have authored it.

But I'm done with you now.

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WorldWideWayne 4360 days ago
Specifically on the topic of photography though - Do you feel that the owner of the object of your photograph should get paid every time the image is shown though? Where does that end? For instance, if you shot a famous building - do you think the architect should get paid? What about the construction workers? The current owner?

That was really my main gist. Sorry for not being sympathetic. I thought I made a pretty good argument. I was not trying to be impolite, but I can see how it could be taken as such. Could you just answer that one question? I'm really interested in the fine line that is being discussed here.

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