Comments on: As a professional photographer, are your copyrighed photographs safe?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:14:11 +0000

I remember once at Photoschool being told it was a compliment if someone stole a print of yours. Of course in those days you couldn’t just download an image off the net.

By: Suffolk Wedding Photographer

Suffolk Wedding Photographer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:28 +0000

I’ve just commented on another blog where there is a competition running where EVERY submission is ‘free for any use in perpetuity’

I just love how companies use these competitions to get photography for nothing…

By: Latorraca@Business Litigation Attorney California

Latorraca@Business Litigation Attorney California — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:01:54 +0000

It might help to prevent theft of photos by adding a watermark to them. You could also upload files that are relatively low in resolution so that it is less useful to those who might want to use your work.

By: Chelle@Stupid Funny Stuff

Chelle@Stupid Funny Stuff — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:13:40 +0000

I have always been leery of using flickr just for that reason – anyone will take your photos without a second thought – selling them is the worst thing i’ve ever heard of! How did they think they could do that?

Chelles last blog post..Please Holdâ€¦

By: Larry @ Commercial Lighting

Larry @ Commercial Lighting — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:33:28 +0000

For all the good photos that I def dont want tp be stolen i always slap a transparent logo across it.

By: J.C. Hutchins

J.C. Hutchins — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:06:50 +0000

Hi, Jon! Thanks for writing this terrific post; it enhances the discussion that Jim Goldstein created at his blog. The recent activity of my company, Myxer.com, was one of the catalysts for Jim’s article, and — as your post points out — we immediately disabled our Flickr integration when we learned our service was distributing photos beyond the Creative Commons license.

Myk Willis, Myxer’s CEO, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about our Flickr integration, and the creative and philosophical intent powering it. It can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/5bws7f

I encourage you and your audience to read it, if only to learn more about the integration, to understand that Myxer did not sell any of the photos accessed via the Flickr API, and to see what Myxer has learned from this experience. As Myk writes in his post, these are “trying times for a massive number of creative people whose footing has been destabilized in this era of instant, zero-cost distribution of digital content on the internet.”

We’re all finding our footing here, and we appreciate the insight you and other bloggers are bringing to the conversation. If you or your readers need any further information about Myxer or future iterations of our Flickr integration, please feel free to contact me personally.

Best wishes,

–J.C. Hutchins
Social Media Marketing Manager, Myxer.com
jc.hutchins@myxer.com