There is always a school bully, created from a public domain photograph. Please click the image twice to fully enlarge it.
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As I said on CabanaBoyās post of this image - - -
See my finger -
See my thumb -
See my fist, you better run! 
Dude, Iām not sure what to say about this. It is not a public domain document. It was originally posted by me and carries a copyright - altered by you. Which brings to something Iāve been thinking about - being able to disable the download option for oneās works.
CabanaBoy- I did obtain the original from the public domain. I will search to locate the original source to prove you WRONG. Prior to doing so, I must ask- did you photograph the boys, if so did you send the photo to an Internet agency? Because of your, accusation, you have caused others to question my reputation. I am 82 years old, I do not lie, cheat or steal. I am so embarrassed! Because of you, I shall NEVER post on this blog AGAIN. However, when I locate the proof, I will post the URL where the original is located, you too shall be embarrassed.
Yeah, Iād like to know where this photo has been posted as well. I took this image in 2004, in Olympia Washington when I was working for the Washington State Legislature during a lunch break at the Heritage Park Fountain. I like this image a lot because it is an example of āAnticipating the Momentā for which Henri Cartier-Bresson was so famous for.
I also posted this image here on the Tropical Exposures Site. So imaging my surprise when I say your version of my image. Below you find a screen shot showing the properties of the original image CRW_1805. Below you will find the same image I posted on this site earlier. I hope you will understand my concern and reaction with seeing MY IMAGE altered by someone else only days after my posting the image here.
Protecting oneās work, while sharing it with others seems to be an increasingly difficult proposition. And with this in mind, I sincerely hope you will not stop posting your work here.
CabanaBoy - I am over the shock and I am sorry for getting angry. I have a folder that I save the public domain photographs. When I work on a photograph, I always use only from that folder. Many of the stock agencies are pulling out of the market and they are placing their item in public domain. I can see how mistakes can be made. Another problem that we face is people submitting photographs and graphics into the public domain that they are not the true owner. I am at the point that I no longer trust them. When I ran across your photograph, I fell in love with it. I believe that it could win in a national competition. I was a serious amateur photographer for about 20 years and professional photographer for about 34 years. I broke my back and that ended my love affair. I then turned to creating custom graphics. I will continue to search for your photograph and I will post the URL so that you may take proper action. I have congested heart failure and the medication has several side effects that cause me to say things that I would normally not thinks of saying. I apologize for my outburst. Sorryā¦ PS: You are an OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHERā¦
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Nothing is private if posted on Internet.
If you want to keep private keep it in your computerā¦
There are a lot of sites that snag images from various sources, mark them as public domain, or free, or package them up and sell them as clip-art. Almost none of it is true and many people think that if something is on the internet it is public domain. In reality almost everything you encounter is copyright to someone.
I agree on one thing. If I get someone picture and the sell it to make money then I agree that would be stealing but If I use it for my personal use then itās not. To make copy right you need to register like any other stuff.
That isnāt correct. Copyright exists the moment you press the camera shutter. You do not have to register anything. Except US citizens need to register works with the USCO if they hope to get statuary damages in a Federal court. That does not apply to US citizens who do not have to register with the USCO prior to infringement.
Also it does not matter if you are selling the stuff or not, you can still get hit with a claim from $750 - $150,000. The only reason that people donāt get hit by copyright claims is because it is very expensive to bring a case in a Federal court, and most photographers canāt afford it. However, there has been recent moves to allow photographers to bring small claim cases to court where the damages are capped to $30K.
Additionally if someone wilfully removes any copyright management information, either by stripping EXIF data or cloning out watermarks they can be hit with claims from $2500 - $25000 under the DMCA.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3945/text
Itās stealing in both cases. You canāt just help yourself to other peopleās work.
What ever. Just donāt posted on Internet. Keep it on your computerā¦ That is the best protectionā¦
Just like over here. Any pictures posted over here you thing they stay here. Or others donāt get them? This where sharing boards come out. If you share it on internet with others then donāt complain about copy rights. Sharing is sharingā¦
Donāt like it, donāt share it. Simple.
Can you point out where I said I think it doesnāt happen? Or that I donāt like it? Or where anybody else said anything similar? No, you canāt. Weāre not stupid - we all know what happens. But no matter what explanation/justification you come up with you canāt change facts - itās stealing. Simple.
OK here are two links the first is to Bing Images where they have indexed the images from my blog site:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=site%3Aprofessor-moriarty.com&FORM=HDRSC2
This second link is to Google Images where I robot ban Google from indexing the site images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:professor-moriarty.com&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBur76hZjfAhUUUBUIHZFOA7oQ_AUIDigB&biw=1647&bih=903
Do you see the difference? Do you appreciate what we could turn the internet into?
Let me give a quote from Stewart Butterfield the founder of Flickr regarding sharing and the Flickr API:
No one said that - the quotation marks were to delineate the position I was referring to. You said
"In a very clear sense, by making your information public, you already gave permission for it to be redistributed this way".
I think thatās wrong too. She didnāt āgive permissionā except in some slimey āyou clicked through the EULA so screw youā way. Itās true that making it public made it possible to retreive the photos via the API, but thatās not the same as giving persmission.
Flickr: The Help Forum: Clarifications on API freedom of use & members rights to options
But to say that people have to play by your rules if they want to make a photo public is bizarre to me. If the software supports the expression of their preference, why should they have to keep their photos private? If there are some that donāt show up in the APIās search methods or have the āblog thisā button, who cares? This seems like a basic issue of respect.
Flickr: The Help Forum: Clarifications on API freedom of use & members rights to options
Imagine youāre uploading photos of your kids, your family vacation, whatever. Itās not your āworkā, and youāre not āpublishingā or looking for an āaudienceā. Youāre willing to make them public because you like participating in a global community, but you donāt want some random blogger (from your perspective; sorry lumis) redistributing all those photos. You donāt necessarily understand apis and web services and rss and syndication, etc. ā it just seems like fun.
In that case, I donāt think you should have to give up that much control to use Flickr. And in cases like this, a little understanding goes a long way.
Flickr: The Help Forum: Clarifications on API freedom of use & members rights to options
Like I said it beforeā¦ If you share it then donāt complain about someone else using it. (But For your own personal use and not for resale)
But any way Iām finish with This Conversation.
Well Iāll just finish by pointing out that is āpublicā argument is like saying that if one plants a rose bed within reach of the road one canāt complain if people walking by cut a spray or two.
