Last week, I took a look at how the new social networking site Pinterest encourages and facilitates copyright infringement. Today, I actually have an example of the kinds of issues that can anger people whose works are “pinned” (infringed upon) on the Pinterest.com site.
Let’s look at the search terms that brought you here.
Is Google+ trying to steal your content?
A new Pharmacy series coming online at iStockphoto.com .
Keeping out of trouble when licensing content.
Terms of Service from several sites are examined for fairness.
iStockphoto.com is a Royalty Free stock photo site. It does not sell imagery Rights Managed. You may have heard these terms before, but what do they mean, and what is the difference between the two? To start, they both refer to licensing agreements. When you purchase an image at iStockphoto, what you are actually buying is a license that gives you certain rights to use a specific piece of content, here a digital image, movie clip, flash composition or audio […]
There’s a popular misconception that it is dangerous in some way to use imagery from a microstock content site, such as iStockphoto.com . Dangerous in a legal sense. That someone may come back someday and say that you don’t have the right to use a certain image. Rest assured that buying an image from iStockphoto is very safe. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever read of a buyer who followed the licensing terms, having a legal issue. Let’s take […]
