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Is ImageLogr.com infringing your copyright?
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PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2010 11:54 pm    Post subject: Is ImageLogr.com infringing your copyright? Reply with quote

http://thomashawk.com/2010/05/is-imagelogr-com-trying-to-be-the-largest-copyright-infringer-of-all-time.html

"Imagelogr claims to be scraping the entire “free web” and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available licenses on Flickr. If people on Imagelogr want to they can manipulate your images, rotate them, see them at different sizes up to 300% and even download the images with a download button directly from the site."


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The site seems to be down now ... "due to copyright issues" Very Happy


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Indeed Very Happy I think one of the best way to guess if some of our pictures are stolen without our permission on the web it to use tineye Smile


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When you post an image on Flikr you give up all rights I believe.


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peterqd wrote:
When you post an image on Flikr you give up all rights I believe.


No you don't.


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peterqd wrote:
When you post an image on Flikr you give up all rights I believe.


Nonsense.

But when you post an image on the Internet, it will be stolen.


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peter,
When you post an image on Flickr, you are given the option of assigning whatever copyright level you want. I personally retain all rights, but many do creative custom copyrights, allowing for some uses. I post post my photos at a max of 800 pixels on the long side so that if someone was to "lift" a copy, it would be hard to get a decent print at anything larger than a 4 X 6 ..


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes you're both right, apologies for that. Has it been changed? I thought I remembered reading about forsaking any rights, and I'm sure I didn't imagine it. Maybe I got it from someone else who was wrong. That's why I've never used Flikr very much.


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you find this?
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What Happened To Imagelogr.com?
If you are wondering why you are being redirected to domainlogr.com instead of landing on imagelogr.com, this page is for you.

We recently launched a little site called imagelogr.com using the Yahoo! BOSS api. It was a little image search engine that was far from finished. The site was just online, didn't have any traffic, and we didn't actually host any images. The whole site was maybe 50kb of php files Smile

Because the 'back-to-source' links were still missing, someone started a post on Flickr claiming we stole billions of images. The counter on our frontpage stating (We are now indexing 25.000.000.00 images) was just a number made up by us, and actually didn't mean much. It was a guess number of how many images Yahoo! would have in its database approximately.

When the news started to spread that we posted full size images without a 'back-to-source' link, we quickly took action and added 2 source links on each page and added a copyright notice stating that he image shown might be copyrighted. After the news was posted on Slashdot and countless other blog and news sites, the emails with complains were coming in rapidly.

In the end we just decided to take the website offline.

This whole Imagelogr project was a non-profit website, we did not display a single ad on the site. We simply tried to make a better images search engine than the currently available ones.

For now the website will remain offline, and it is our plan to turn it into a Google Images like website (with frames linking to the original source) over the next couple of days. Until that time, we are forwarding all traffic to this domain.


PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the tip Scott. I've never got into the Flikr community really, I've put about 15 pics on there as a placekeeper and I've only received one comment! Sad