Rudy Umans
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4 hours ago, Charles Lewis said:
Although I love taking photos of markets, I would never take close-up shots of individual products (check my port!). For me, it is all about the atmosphere of markets.
Crooks don't care about atmosphere, unless the walls are plastered with dollar bills. Then they go "Hey Nice atmosphere"!
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I would have intervened Patrick. There are limits.
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On 1/27/2020 at 10:04 AM, Crowing Hen said:
and an easier way to resolve disputes between creators and content users.
There is now. I posted this earlier
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2426
To my knowledge this bill passed
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I agree. Get a card reader.
I use the paypal one. works like a charm
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21 minutes ago, Charles Lewis said:
So what you are saying is that there is consensus but nobody is willing to enforce it because it isn't worth it to them or because it might ruffle inter-governmental relationships. So, essentially, it comes down to the impossibility of enforcing copyright law.
Interestingly, when I was working with WIPO, the USA was trying to take them over. That was in the 1990s. My involvement was essentially on the IT side.
That pretty much sums it up as far as treaties goes (unless that case is huge as said or in case of National or international security or something like that)
SS is in a position to do something in a foreign country if they want and they have an office there.
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7 minutes ago, Charles Lewis said:
I know WIPO; they were my client when I worked in Geneva. The impossibility of enforcement is a function of the lack of consensus.
No it is not. There is consensus for the most part. There is no enforcement, because enforcement can have consequences in big cases and no impact is small cases. Nobody is going to mess with an international relationship for a few dollar or a few million dollars.
Also, International law is mainly determining what law of what country will prevail. In case of a potential trial, what country do you go? Do you go to them or do they come to you? That's the question nobody wants to bother with unless it is a huge case that could impact everybody. And even then.......
I was involved with UNIDO for a few years and learned a lot. (I had an agreement with them)
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6 minutes ago, Charles Lewis said:
Trying to get international consensus on copyright law is probably impossible.
No, it is not. There is an International copyright treaty managed and monitored by the "World Intellectual Property Organization" (WIPO). The US DMCA act is a direct result of that. (like a local chapter so to speak)
What is impossible is enforcing it and filing international claims. The things is, there are no such things as International Laws. They don't exist. What we do have are treaties like the WIPO one, but there is no real international enforcement for those.
In our case, we have (or should have rather unfortunately) SS to look after our world wide affairs.
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The problem with these things is that celebrities are setting an example. If they get away with things like this, their millions of fans might think they can too.
I didn't like Shutterstock's sissy response at all.
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16 hours ago, Thijs de Graaf said:
If Shutterstock would prohibit search engines from passing on our photos, Shutterstock would remain unknown and you would not sell much.
The search engines in itself are not the problem and I assume that you specifically refer to Google Images. having said that, of course, they would sell a lot without that feature, as a matter of fact, they would sell more. Shutterstock was around, and growing fast, way before Google Images became an issue or was even a Google feature.
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As far as the USA is concerned, it is a lot easier and accessible now to take legal action against the "big guys"
To my knowledge this bill passed
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2426
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4 hours ago, Sari ONeal said:
Rudy, is your winter long gone now?
Pretty much. It might go down to the fifties a few nights but that's about it. Right now it's seventies during the day and sixties at night, which is nice .
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Well... this used to be the busiest thread on the forums.........
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16 hours ago, Sheila Fitzgerald said:
I've never played with a pinhole camera. have fun with it.
It is a lot of fun. You should try it one day.
shameless plug:
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/rudy-umans?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=743940
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Does that make you homesick Sari?
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Well the iguanas are happy again. The winter is over. Back to 80F.
Bought a new pinhole camera. (my2nd)
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21 minutes ago, AlessandraRC said:
a friend who taught me about everything I know in photography... a great photographer who will probably die and no one will ever hear bout him ...
This is your chance to let the world know!!
Who is he? Does he have a website?
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Even Ansel Adams's first love was music. As a very talented pianist, he almost became a full time professional musician and it was only because he didn't like the politics and the business side of the music industry that stopped him and made him concentrate on photography, which was just a hobby for him until then.
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ok it was officially 38 in my neighborhood and 32 with the wind chill
Very cool Patrick. No art can stir the soul as music can.
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It's not normal Sheila, but it happens every blue moon or so.. Fortunately it is only one day. A number of years ago we had below 52F for about a week and then plaints, some trees, and animals die. We had literally iguanas dropping dead out of trees.
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tomorrow morning it will be in the 40ties and with the wind chill 30 something.. I had to put all our orchids (10 or so, incl. one that is almost 5 feet) in the garage. Don't want them to die.
The good news is, it is only supposed to last a day. So I guess, our winter for this year will be on a Wednesday ......
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2 hours ago, Milo J said:
- Yes, SS will send you a 1099 at the end of the year (I believe the threshold is $600 earned in a year until they are required by law to do so)
Income from SS is considered royalties by the IRS and the 1099 threshold for royalties is $10.00 for the year for U.S. taxpayers
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11 minutes ago, David Moreno Hernandez said:
Really? had no idea. Panoramic shots aren't allowed then? I don't get.
Panos is not the same as upsizing. (Digitally enlarging)
Stitching some images to create a pano is fine.
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The simplest answer to the OP's problem is that his "cheap" (his words not mine) 70-300mm is simply soft to begin with (especially at the extremes) and in that case, one can cement the camera/lens in concrete and that still wouldn't change anything.
Also his 9000 x 4000 px is upsized from the camera's native resolution, which is 6000 x 4000px I believe. Isn't that against the SS rules? If this is true, you have your reason for rejection(s) right there. Unless his 9000 was a typo, then see answer number 1
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Thanks Heide
Digital century need a new copyright Law
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Not necessarily
For educational uses (and some other uses) there is this doctrine in the US Copyright law that is called "Fair use"
https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html