My analogy is if you're uploading stuff to the net, you're releasing all rights anyways because everyone can see it, so you may as well deselect "all rights reserved". That won't stop someone from copying your image or taking a screenshot of it.
exactly. I might not even change it from "all rights reserved". If you're going to take one of my pictures for your own personal use, I am not ever going to find out! So just go ahead and do it!
"All rights reserved" hopefully will entice the more honest to simply ask me for permission, as opposed to all that Creative Commons verbiage, which will likely entice people to say "tl;dr" and move on to the next potential image to use.
True, it's really how you look at it. Net neutrality isn't exactly as neutral as it seems as people tend to lean one way or another.
In the perfect internet utopia, anyone would be able to do whatever they want. In the real world we have things like passwords and licensing agreements to prevent others from accessing our digital beings, committing financial or identity theft. It doesn't
always work, but it is a good safeguard next to no protection at all.
You make a good point, you could always contact the creator. It may not be as fast as simply grabbing it, but it's the more, shall I say, humane thing to do.
-Problem is if the author never contacts you, or if they say no. But that's life I guess.
Anyways, back to the photos. Nice work everyone! 19,000 photos Chris? That's crazy!
Took a look the ones on your first page and they look good!
