"On the other hand, just lifting other people's photos for your blog and claiming your use is fair just because you provided attribution probably isn't going to pass muster."
This is such an important point. There are a ton of blogs that do nothing except post (through tags) copies of other people's photos. They don't check the copyright of the photo.
I found one today that had two disclaimers posted to acknowledge that "these photos don't belong to the blog owner." But there was one of my photos, posted along with the description that I entered on Flickr. I continue to be shocked at how misguided people are. This guy didn't even ask if he could use my "All rights reserved" photo on his blog.
I gave him a piece of my mind, but I know he's not going to stop. He's going to continue to steal photos and none of the other photographers will know about it.
By the way, I have an RSS feed of a Google search for links back to my Flickr stream. It helps me catch this kind of stuff when people link directly to my images. But it doesn't help when people just right click save as and host the image on their own site.
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"On the other hand, just lifting other people's photos for your blog and claiming your use is fair just because you provided attribution probably isn't going to pass muster."
This is such an important point. There are a ton of blogs that do nothing except post (through tags) copies of other people's photos. They don't check the copyright of the photo.
I found one today that had two disclaimers posted to acknowledge that "these photos don't belong to the blog owner." But there was one of my photos, posted along with the description that I entered on Flickr. I continue to be shocked at how misguided people are. This guy didn't even ask if he could use my "All rights reserved" photo on his blog.
I gave him a piece of my mind, but I know he's not going to stop. He's going to continue to steal photos and none of the other photographers will know about it.
By the way, I have an RSS feed of a Google search for links back to my Flickr stream. It helps me catch this kind of stuff when people link directly to my images. But it doesn't help when people just right click save as and host the image on their own site.