Tag : copyright

Big Readership Day

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to read my Vimeo rights grab post. Today was the biggest readership day ever for this blog. I bought an Entrepreneur magazine to read on the plane yesterday and discovered that Vimeo.com is owned by the guys who bring you CollegeHumor.com . Perhaps they see a funny side to this rights grab clause? In their forums, Vimeo posted some legal jumbo jumbo that they need such a ridiculously greedy clause to run their site. […]

Is it Safe?

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 […]

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