Photo Shocker.
A family portrait ended up on a supermarket advertising poster thousands of miles away after it appeared in an internet blog. The Smith family from the United States said that no permission was sought from either them or the photographer over the use of the image, which was spotted on a poster by a friend in Prague, Czech Republic. The store owner promised to remove the advert.
From the Snap Shot column in Amateur Photographer magazine 20 June 2009.
That's scary. Not much of a photographer myself, I tend to get images for my blog from wikimedia commons and freefoto.com. I try to reference the photographer where I can, but I'm sometimes scared about copyright - I have to say, I don't understand it completely.
ReplyDeleteI've wondered too in the past about how many people's tourist photos I'm accidentally in the background of! It would be interesting to know how many photos there are of me that I don't know about. Haven't seen any in an advert yet though, thankfully!
I think the problem lays in the fact that the internet and digital explosion has made everyone more accessible but at what price. Invasion of privacy, subject to hackers, spamers and scams.
ReplyDeleteAlso copyright infringment and the use of work without permission. Mind you all of this used to happen long before the present climate. Then in this country there is the increased numbers of CCTV cameras (1984 and all that).