From the great Tom Lehrer:
" Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'."
On 3/8/14, 2:38 PM, John Palcewski wrote:
From the Atlantic, March 6:
Why Getty Going Free Is Such a Big Deal, Explained in Getty Images
The company just made tens of millions of its photos free for
noncommercial use.
Heres's one of the quirks of the Internet: It can make illegal
activity so simple to engage in that you can forget it's against the law.
Take image-sharing. If you find a photo, via Google Image Search or
some such, that you want to publish on your blog (or tweet out to your
followers, or use as your Instagram profile pic, or what have you),
there is an extremely simple way to accomplish this: Download or
screencap the image. Upload it. Boom. The Internet has shared its
riches with you once again.
If you have engaged in this process with an image that happens to be
from Getty, the massive digital photo agency, however ... then you
are, I am sorry to tell you, a thief. You have violated Getty's terms
of service; you have stolen its stuff; you have (screen)grabbed
something that was not yours to grab in the first place.
If you are one of these digital outlaws, though, your thieving days
may soon be behind you. Late yesterday, Getty announced a new system
for photo-sharing on its platform: embeddability. Some 35 million(!)
of the agency's photos are now free for pretty much anyone to
share—for, at least, noncommercial purposes. Which is big news, not
only for the web publishers whose ranks are growing daily, but also
for what the move says—and concedes—about the digital economy as
it exists in early 2014.
More from the article here:
http://bit.ly/1qc3Wut
