Why does Google+ only take down one photograph when an account is clearly flooded with posts of stolen photos?
"Images with unenforced copyrights lose their ability to generate direct income for several reasons. First is death by search engine burial. I depend on a high search ranking, as most clients arrive to my website using Google. Yet the churning tides of Facebook, 9gag, and imgur make it harder and harder for prospective customers to find my actual website in the search soup of my uncredited images. I am too often competing—and losing—against uncredited copies of my own work. If clients do track me down, they have little incentive to buy. Who wants to pay for an image that is already everywhere?"
Google+ results show up in Google Search, and G+ posts can indirectly promote infringing uses over the creator's own copies of a photo as well. The DMCA takedown process is a minimum response; Google profits from serving ads against the infringing search results for posts it tolerates on G+. Surely Google can do better. Google could help content creators find and address copyright infringement, especially on Google's own services.
#copyright #copyrightinfringement #photography
Most copyright holders are individuals; most infringers are businesses. Things are broken.
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It's becoming more and more problematic +Jeff Sullivan.
+Matthew Shuey Google used to pride itself on accurate search results. Now that it has 2/3 share of search, it tolerates (and even creates and promotes) deviations in small markets, at the expense of small businesses such as photographers. Google rose on its values. Whether or not it has abandoned those values will determine the next trajectory.
I hear you +Jeff Sullivan. I'm dealing with a few faux photographers that stole art from a few of my photo contributors and even put their own watermark on it trying to pass off the work as their own. Currently we are using DMCA as a last option as credit reporting seems to be a more viable option.
+Jeff Sullivan Can you send me (private message is fine) an example of an infringing G+ account, and I'll see if there's something I can do internally.
muy hermoso:)
very true!! Happy day +Jeff Sullivan
Will do +Travis Wise , thanks!
Wow not cool at all i loved Alex Wild's work he is a gifted macro photographer.
If I had a website, I would be bummed!