Imagine taking a photo, adding it to your Flickr account and forgetting about it. It suddenly starts cropping up on T-Shirts, magazines, posters, canvases and prints around the world – sold by people that won’t attribute the shot to you and don’t share the money made from your photo.
This is the incredible story of Noam Galai who’s work is popular in over 40 countries around the world and didn’t know it.
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You should probably include his name in your article, Noam Galai. And a link to his website, thestolenscream.com
@Russell Bishop Many thanks, I have amended the article.
Was the setting on Flicker set to allow other people to use his photo or is it standard for Flicker photos to be taken without credit or pay?
@noam Bummer! It seems Noam had something to say, but couldn’t.
@Teo Lisitza@noam
for some reason he isn’t able to comment. I did speak to him over email and he said the following in response to this question:
“No, all my photos are under “All Rights Reserved” and i also write it in the description just in case. but its not hard to click on the printscreen button and copy images without asking. you can see it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noamg/.“
If he files an infringment case..is there any chance that he will be able to salvage any revenue earned by many people?
@Anmol Sarita Bahl (Precious) i did ask him whether he would be taking legal action over this and he said the following:
“Only if i get a good lawyer that i can afford (so far, before the story went out – lawyers asked for a lot of money that i dont have). if i sue it will be only the companies who made moeny. I wont sue any “private” people, even if they made some money out of it. Suing random people for reason like this can destroy their lives for no good reason. “
@Zee Thanks for letting me know Zee..I just hope justice gets served…Next time..there is somebody’s family photo being used to portray parental problems…These kind of things are especially important, the pedobears are on the prowl.They do nasty things.
Interesting video, it really begs the question what license he assigned to the image when he uploaded it.
@thisismyurl Well..even if he had set the copyright usage to restricted..people can print or save the images…try holding that print screen button on the keyboard…screen capture…you can’t curb infringment..people will do it as long as they feel its the right thing to do…some of them may lack the morales to consider they are actually costing somebody their’s livelihood.
@Anmol Sarita Bahl (Precious) That’s not quite true with Flickr. When you upload an image you can choose to simply upload it or you can choose to upload it under two types of Creative Commons-licensed (commercial or with the right to modify and build upon). If he uploaded the image as a CC with commercial rights, then the only thing he can really complain about is not having people attribute the source but if he simply shared the image (with no CC license) than sure, he has something to be upset about.
@thisismyurl Hmm…good point but in both the cases he wshould get some money out of his work.However it would be nice if there would be a link to his image on Flickr to check more about it.
What’s all this talk of suing? His image is used, there’s the value. We don’t own anything anyway, we only borrow it while we’re here. Besides, the image has been duplicated, therefore it no longer is the original, but a representation made from a series of ones and zeros. Lastly, I’m now aware of this man I didn’t know existed prior to this story. Folks can do better than worrying about copyright and get on with making stuff.
The image has been duplicated, therefore it no longer is the original, but a representation made from a series of ones and zeros. I’m now aware of this man I didn’t know existed prior to this story. Maybe he didn’t want the image replicated, though posting it online says otherwise. In a more abstract sense, we really don’t own anything, but borrow while we’re here.