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Copyright conundrum

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First an apology to all those subscribers who received multiple emails on the first Monday in October.

Occasionally at certain times when I don’t have a suitable image actually taken by me, I make use of pictures hosted on a site published under a Creative Commons Licence.

CabbieBlog is committed to respecting copyright law and other intellectual property rights. To support this approach CabbieBlog takes every reasonable effort to ensure rights holders are contacted for permission before reproduction of their work on the pages of this website, on the comment sections and for all other uses.

Unfortunately, not all webmasters have been so meticulous regarding copyright ownership. As the publisher, I am held to be liable, even when the photo supplier has made the omission.

Since this blog started much has changed in the cyberverse and today we now have Copyright Trolls who scan the internet for infringements, and according to the excellent IanVisits website, they can charge the site owner £400 per incident.

Back to the apology

To ensure that CabbieBlog doesn’t infringe on the hard work of other creatives, post pictures that I cannot ascertain their origins are now password protected.

All is not lost

Many of CabbieBlog’s ‘best bits’ are reposted (without illustrations) every Saturday under the Previously Posted banner. But should you have an overwhelming desire to read any other old missives, some stretching back 15 years, please contact me and I’ll check out the post for copyright infringement and then send you a unique password enabling you to view that article.

The small print

CabbieBlog is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Any omissions or errors are inadvertent and will be corrected for future publication on written notification by the rights holder or their representative.

 

14 thoughts on “Copyright conundrum”

  1. So much for any non-original artwork or photos on my blog! I don’t need this hassle. I rarely use anything more than a canned greetings on national holidays or photo of a flag, but attribution frequently isn’t given on these supposedly “free” images.

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  2. Just out of curiosity, what authority, expressed or implied, do these copyright trolls claim to support their demands for £400/image? If this is specified on the website you gave a link to, apologies: I will check it out anyway. I generally use images [very few these days, anyway] from the free Unsplash site, and they are always credited. cheers, Jon.

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  5. In 11 years of blogging, I have used hundreds of photos found online. If they are credited, I either credit the photographer or leave in the copyright mark on the image. In all that time, I have only been approached on two occasions by photographers asking for named credit. I offered to remove the images with an apology, but they were happy for me to amend the posts to mention them instead.
    But if larger companies are now chasing bloggers using AI technology, I may well have to rethink such posts.
    Cheers, Pete.

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  6. Your patience is remarkable. I find the whole copyright, AI , news feed chaos cloud, and overall internet mayhem is increasingly beyond my meager human old guy willingness to deal with much more…I’m thinking more and more about a quiet corner pub, a cool dark pint, daydreams of past glories…, repeat.

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