It’s become easy for us to grab pictures here there and everywhere on the net and use them for our blog posts, Facebook posts and Twitter feeds. Sometimes people even use images they find for products they make and sell (remember the story about Ben Ali Ong, the Sydney artist who used someone else’s images he found on a stock photo website in the production of his own art). But take note of copyright rules – they rule! Below is a sobering story about a photographer justifiably taking on a retail chain for using one of her images without permission.
Following on from this is a cautionary note around the terms of service provided by Instagram, Google and Flikr. The moral of the story is to be aware of what images you can and can’t use, when and how.
Photographer sues over ‘stolen’ photoYOU could call it the quintessential Newcastle summer snapshot: a lone surfer walking across the rocks near Merewether beach in search of a wave. In fact, it was such a good shot that the photographer, Gateshead’s Naomi Frost, believes someone stole the image, printed it on thousands of T-shirts and sold them through menswear giant Lowes.
