Posts Tagged ‘image-theft’

The DMCA on 7 Photo Sharing Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 16th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

Previously on this site, I reviewed the DMCA policies of the top 5 social news sites. I found, as might be expected, that the policies on the five different sites varied wildly both in terms of how they were implemented and how robust they were.
Differences between the sites became clear as sites with more money, [...]



FeelImage No Longer Displaying Flickr Photos

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 14th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Products

Image search engine FeelImage, previously discussed here, has stopped displaying Flickr results in its pages.
This comes after Cybele, along with others, noticed that the site appeared to violating Flickr’s terms of use and posted about it in the Flickr forum.
In the replies to Cybele’s post, a Flickr staff member named “Kevin” posted a [...]



Lightbox and Content Theft

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 19th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Prevention, Products

Lightbox is a very popular jJavascript application for displaying images on Web sites. It, along with the modifications of it and the similar scripts, produce the “fade out” effect that pushes the clicked image to the foreground, making it easier to focus on the large image and giving it more room to be displayed.
Also, since [...]