As you may know, I’m a photographer who licenses stock imagery. This license that someone buys, allows them to use a certain image in a certain way. However, there is a large group out there on internet who may be using my and others’ images illegally, so I wanted to discuss image usage on blogs today.
About a year or so ago, Pinterest and copyright issues became a topic of discussion. If you need more details on how Pinterest works and how it affects the photographer or stock contributor, you can read the aforementioned linked post. Long story short, a user “pins” (copies) any image they find on the internet to the Pinterest servers, for viewing, sharing and hotlinking by the site’s users. Yesterday, iStockphoto announced that they are going to officially maintain an active presence […]