On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:48:48 -0400, "jrzyguy" found these unused words floating about:
it really all depends what your intent of use is. If you are going to use an image for any sort of professional reason…then yeah..its pretty unethical to rob this person of their stuff without permission.
I wont say where i work….but we have cloned out pleanty of corbis watermarks in the past. I think they have finaly stopped that tho.
But if you are going to be using it for say a student project or a personal web site….contact the person…and they are usualy pretty cool about sharing (as long as YOU do not take credit for their work and give them some credit (perhaps a link to their site). And the nice thing about working with them like this…is that they will probably send you a higher resolution file than what you will find on their site.
If you are a student tho…and am making some sort of presentation…i am sure there would really be no ethical breech if you included the source in a bibliography.
Personaly…i dont see much of an ethical problem if you are going to use these images for a private presentation (say a closing dinner)…and are not going to distribute the images publicly in ANY way.
If i am wrong..i am sure someone will correct me.
j
"Closing Dinners" and ALL presentations are technically required to obtain a ‘site license’ for music and video usage. This would then seem that all forms of copyright is involved in such ‘private’ presentations.
Use of an image in a home setting – would probably NOT fall into the trap. In any commercial setting, restaurant, ballroom, meeting room, convention facility, etc. definitely does … as many large companies have found out to the detriment of their ‘show budget’.
To date, I’ve yet to refuse imagery except in one case … where it was ‘presented as a "fait accompli" and "after the fact". This group (three letter "B" govenrmental arm) even had gone so far as to blur my copyright.
So why contact me? They’d had complaints about the ‘poor printing quality’ and decided they ‘needed better images’ from me! Yeah, right!
Their regional supervisor got the ‘cease and desist’ letter(s).