Disney Dreams
Proudly afflicted with TDMA!
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2006
So, I discovered something late last night that bothered me. Being sleepy, I was well aware that I could be bothered for no reason, so I did nothing about it. This morning, I was still bothered. So, I wanted to do something about it, but was not sure what. So, off to work I went. Now, after a day has passed, here I am, asking for opinions and input.
The topic? Other people using pictures you took and shared. Yep, a familiar topic that has been discussed here. That's why I am looking for input.
Pretend for a moment that you went to Disneyland and took several pictures. You then shared them here on the Disneyland section of the DISBoards. You then discover that someone took some of your pictures, re-saved them to their own PhotoBucket account, and included them in their trip report. Although they DID thank you for the photos in their post, they never asked if it was okay to take them, use them, and save them to their own account (whereby, one can presume, using them elsewhere as well). They just did it. The only way you learned about it was by accident.
Is this:
A) Totally okay since they mentioned the photos were yours.
B) Not okay because they did not ask you permission.
C) Totally okay because they are posted online so they can do whatever they want with them.
D) ___________________________.
I do not place a copyright on any of my photos because they are automatically copyrighted by law since they are my creation.
I also don't do so because people can just crop it out if they really want to do so.
I have shared easily 100 photos on the DISBoards over the 4.5 years that I have been an active DIS member. Although I don't think many of my photos are "amazing," I have had people e-mail me on numerous occasions asking if they can use a picture of mine in a family scrapbook / memory album of Disneyland and have always said, "Yes." More flattered than anything else. But they have asked.
How would you feel about someone taking your photo straight from DIS and using it elsewhere on DIS (or even not on DIS) without even asking (albeit, with a "credit" given)?
Would you care? What would you do?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Dreams
The topic? Other people using pictures you took and shared. Yep, a familiar topic that has been discussed here. That's why I am looking for input.
Pretend for a moment that you went to Disneyland and took several pictures. You then shared them here on the Disneyland section of the DISBoards. You then discover that someone took some of your pictures, re-saved them to their own PhotoBucket account, and included them in their trip report. Although they DID thank you for the photos in their post, they never asked if it was okay to take them, use them, and save them to their own account (whereby, one can presume, using them elsewhere as well). They just did it. The only way you learned about it was by accident.
Is this:
A) Totally okay since they mentioned the photos were yours.
B) Not okay because they did not ask you permission.
C) Totally okay because they are posted online so they can do whatever they want with them.
D) ___________________________.
I do not place a copyright on any of my photos because they are automatically copyrighted by law since they are my creation.
I also don't do so because people can just crop it out if they really want to do so.
I have shared easily 100 photos on the DISBoards over the 4.5 years that I have been an active DIS member. Although I don't think many of my photos are "amazing," I have had people e-mail me on numerous occasions asking if they can use a picture of mine in a family scrapbook / memory album of Disneyland and have always said, "Yes." More flattered than anything else. But they have asked.
How would you feel about someone taking your photo straight from DIS and using it elsewhere on DIS (or even not on DIS) without even asking (albeit, with a "credit" given)?
Would you care? What would you do?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Dreams