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Yes... because the creator reserves all rights to copyrighted works (with some legal exceptions). If you cant find the creator, then you have no rights to use t
by rgbrenner 9y ago
Yes... because the creator reserves all rights to copyrighted works (with some legal exceptions). If you cant find the creator, then you have no rights to use the image. To get such rights, you need to contact the creator and ask. That's the way it works.
Just because you don't know who to ask, doesnt mean you're magically granted rights you dont have to an asset you had no part in creating.
- PhantomGremlin 9y agoJust because you don't know who to ask, doesnt mean you're magically granted rights you dont have to an asset you had no part in creating. Huh? I think you just described Google Books. They "got away with" copying over 25 million books in their entirety. Not that I agree with the US courts in this matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books#Copyright_infringement.2C_fair_use_and_related_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books#Copyright_infring...
- bkanber 9y agoSituation is obviously completely different. Google was not reprinting, packaging and selling the books like Netflix was in the OP.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoGoogle are commercially benefitting from having copied works in their entirety. It's not so different.
- tptacek 9y agoGoogle indexes the books, not repackaging them for a different audience. Fundamentally they're doing the same thing for books that they do for web pages, whose copyrights are also not violated by search indexing. Netflix's designer, on the other hand, appropriated someone else's photograph wholesale.