Copyright certainly resides with the artist and it's a stronger right
than in the US as I remember.
I'm inclined to think that the offender may have been duped as well
but was careless - if that is the case then some of the vituperative
and vicarious rage in postings is quite ridiculous. Half the world
seems to live in a soap opera fantasy these days - I mean, death
threats?!
The fact that she is a starving single mother (how irresponsible!) is
quite irrelevant to the matter at hand. A sentimental diversion. it
wouldn't matter if she was as rich as Picasso. I note that the
offender is identified by a female name in a place not a cough and
spit from where I once lived. Perhaps she's the entrepreneurial
single mother of three children? :-)
Frankly her best strategy would be to forgive, cut a deal with a
company that seems rather good at selling her images and make some
bloody money!
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 17/05/2007, at 2:47 PM, John Morton wrote:
> As far as copyright goes: aren't we all aware that copyright
> automatically resides with the photographer of an image? I read
> through the comments on the Flickr site before it was deleted: not
> only were multiple images of hers taken and used without her
> consent, but, the ownership was attributed to another person: and
> when the company in question was called on this, they removed the
> images belonging to Rebekka and then re-branded the other images
> that had been under the same name used for Rebekka's images with
> another name. To me, that pretty clearly shows intent.
>
> In any case, it certainly was a crime that her images were stolen
> and sold without her consent, with the profits going to someone she
> does not even know. That is pretty much the bottom line. I think it
> is particularly hard on her because she has two young sons and is
> currently a student; she hasn't come out and said it but I am sure
> that the money which her images generated for someone else would
> have paid for some basic necessities for her children. Her images
> are really good, and it is obvious that they are not the sort of
> photographs one casually shoots: it looks to me like lots of time
> and thought and probably some hard effort went into just getting in
> position to take them. So, it really is a sad situation overall.
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