10 bogus excuses that people use when they steal a photo from the Internet

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3 pointskimauclair4 comments

Well 8 is a little incomplete. You may not be able to use a photo just because you are in it, but usually neither can the photographer without explicit consent. This is an issue rights of publicity rather the copyright (as I understand it, IANAL).

This is important to know because if say your boyfriend takes nude pictures of you and posts them on the internet, his presumed copyright ownership of those images does not protect him. Generally unless you've signed a release you can have images of you taken down from websites. Don't get bullied!

Also, doesn't the DMCA protect people under most of these? They can be posted no matter the copyright status, until a company claiming ownership asks them to take it down.

Well the DMCA has a "take down" process, but the purpose of that is mostly to protect the website / carrier not either of the parties. The parties are protected under the regular law (i.e. they sue each other).

A. I don't do this. B. I'm surprised that somebody else hasn't complained about the word "steal". Is this like The Robert Crown Affair?

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