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Your analogy - I'm allowed to copy John Carter (2012) dvds and do what I like with them because it made a loss of $125m and the only people who saw it were the
by lysp 9y ago
Your analogy -
I'm allowed to copy John Carter (2012) dvds and do what I like with them because it made a loss of $125m and the only people who saw it were the director's family, next door neighbour and pet dog.
The bigger the design firm, the more aware they should be of copyright law and their legal obligations.
The fact they used the photo shows it had value, otherwise they would have taken a custom photo themselves. There are plenty of stock photos of VHS tapes, the fact they used google is a massive error on their part.
This is their daily job and the image will be reproduced millions of times. This is not simply someone who borrows a photo for their personal blog.
- vadimberman 9y agoExcept the photo that was copied was not created in order to make a living. That is sorta kinda the point.
- stbtrax 9y agothis is a great and very clear standard, I'm sure it will scale to every photograph on the internet.
- vadimberman 9y agoYup. It's called "common sense". Many people on HN should adopt it, challenging as it is.
- bkor 9y agoThere's nothing in copyright which takes that into account. The photo is copyrighted. Netflix makes a huge deal about copyright and goes out of its way to restrict what you can see and do with their stuff. Yet they ignore copyright because reasons. Why would it be ok to copy a photo because then another company can make money off it because the initial person may or maybe not made the picture to make money?