aleksander_aleksandrowicz

<p>Thanks for your opinion.<br> Copyright violation is a subject to an ongoing debate and there are many views on the topic, especially today, with the advancement of technology. <br> You've made a good point there. Some people believe that the best solution to protect your photographs from being stolen is not to make them public at all, but then what is the point of shooting anyway? <br> The fact that we have to sacrifice something in order to get publicity is really disturbing. Sometimes additional work may be the profit, but other times (most of the times I think) our work is put in jeopardy.<br> Don't you think that something could be done to prevent it? The Internet is great, we have free access to almost everything, but at the same time it frequently leads to our destruction. I know there is no clear-cut answer to this, but I think we should keep on trying and maybe someday we'll find a perfect solution to the problem.</p>

<p><strong>A problem of plagiarism, not only of content but also of photographs.</strong></p> <p lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY">Plagiarism is a serious problem of modern times, especially with the commonness of the Internet, when everyone has an unlimited access to the information in the media. Plagiarism is easier than ever before, because everything can be found online, saved on a private computer or shared with other people. What is even more outrageous is that plagiarism nowadays concerns not only content but also photographs and images. The fact that people steal photos from the Internet is hurtful for the authors, who put a lot of effort into taking pictures.</p> <p lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY">Plagiarising other people's work has always been considered a lie, trickery and a crime. The concept of <em>plagiarism </em>has entered English language in 17^th century, thanks to a dramatist Ben Jonson, who was first to describe someone guilty of a literary theft as a <em>plagiary</em>. Since then, plagiarism has become a familiar concept and has even evolved to mean not only literature theft, but also any kind of content, currently also an online text, or even an image!</p> <p lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY">Online plagiarism is nowadays as serious as stealing texts from books! By way of consolation it is worth mentioning that plagiarism is being punished more often. People react to stealing their intellectual property and frequently win the cases in court. Copyright infringement is a legitimate accusation and now it doesn't matter whether it happened online or not.</p> <p lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY">When it comes to an online plagiarism, it may concern various online forms, for example websites, blogs, and others. Copied content from your website may do harm to your page, as it may not be shown as a result of web search for example in Google. It's nothing pleasant to publish something online, just to find another website having word for word the same content. Blogs are also put at great risk of plagiarism, as they usually present a unique content. Apart from stealing content, blogs are also in danger of plagiarizing photographs, which are usually the author's property.</p> <p lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY">Plagiarism of photographs usually takes place when someone is looking for an image in the Google search and he/she does not think that it requires an author's consent to use the photo somewhere else. Plagiarism of photos, just as any other kind of plagiarism, is unethical and aims at people who work hard to earn an honest penny on their hobby. To understand why stealing photos is such a big deal, one would have to become absorbed by it and find out what it takes to be a decent photographer. First of all, it takes years to master this hobby, one has to start with nothing and gradually acquire skills. One of the first goal for every amateur photographer is to get a new, professional camera, which of course is extremely expensive, sometimes its cost exceed the price of a small car. Once you realize how much work and money it is to be a good photographer, you gain respect to them and value their work more.</p> <p lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY">The incessant problem of plagiarism is a burden to our society. The same images and content continue to be used online by a great number of people over and over again, which means that no new content is being published, but users still work with the same content. Thus it is crucial to create the new content and not copy other, already existing texts or photographs.</p> <p lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY"> </p>

<p>Brian, if you decide on Nikon I suggest you look at d5100, or d5200. Both of these are decent and rather cheap. Both also have HD camera mode, timelapse intervalometer and other valuable features. <br> I suggest you buy a new body, and used lenses, that's exactly what I've done and I'm pretty satisfied.</p> <p> </p>

<p>Sending an invoice is a good idea, although I think Ian was extremely lucky that they just paid without a murmur. Usually people who steal your pics either don't care, because they know it's too costly and time-consuming to file a lawsuit, or they simply delete it and pretent the situation never happened.</p> <p>On the other hand, it's worth keeping the watermark and all, as it is your signature, whereverthe photo would be (even on a thief's website). </p> <p>Btw, there is also this website <a href="http://copyact.com/en">http://copyact.com/en</a> where you can search for your pictures as well as get an instant message about your content being stolen.</p>