![]() Note that the recent feasibility study from Richard Hooper - which came out of other work done as part of the UK Digital Economy bill research, including a report from Prof Ian Hargreaves - included the following recommendation in regards to “orphan works.” I’ve gone ahead and used the lead photo in the story as an example and created a shortened URL for it at: You can use the same online metadata reading tool that we used for the survey noted above. Take a look at the preliminary results from the “Survey regarding the Preservation of Photo Metadata by Social Media Websites” that was started in 2009. This is a practice which should have come to an end before now, but unfortunately seems to becoming even more widespread. You would think the same would be true with respect to copyright laws.įeel free to contact me at that it’s any consolation but many other news organizations, as well as social media and photo sharing sites do the same. In so many respects the advent of technology has propelled photographers forward. Thank you for addressing this egregious practice, Daniel. My photo on NatGeo had over 42,000 shares, so it’s safe to assume that it’s being misused. At least they put a copyright on mine, although it was an easy one to remove and/or crop out b/c of its location. The one they posted yesterday doesn’t even have a copyright. While I now realize that FB strips metadata, NatGeo specifically wrote to me that stripping metadata was their procedure before posting pictures on FB. Although I now rarely upload photos directly to FB, if and when I do, I make sure there is a large copyright on the photo. Thanks to David for pointing out that FB strips all metadata. You are more than welcome to share my situation with ASMP. It’s baffling that the government doesn’t seem to be able to make anything simple. No, I am not currently a member of ASMP,although I have been reading their info and viewed their tutorial on how to copyright images.
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