Isnt this bad too?

[Karen]

If you are taking a stranger's picture and planning to sell it, you need to obtain a release from them. However, posting a stranger's picture, with no financial gain, and without identifying that person in any way, is pretty harmless.

[Flatcoatluver]

If you are taking a stranger's picture and planning to sell it, you need to obtain a release from them. However, posting a stranger's picture, with no financial gain, and without identifying that person in any way, is pretty harmless.

Thanks for clearing this up, I would love to post pictures of everybody's dogs at work, but I wasn't sure if it was ok.

[Jessika]

If you are taking a stranger's picture and planning to sell it, you need to obtain a release from them. However, posting a stranger's picture, with no financial gain, and without identifying that person in any way, is pretty harmless.

Not to mention completely legal as well. And that applies to pets, too.

Now of course if the pet owners find out later on and don't feel comfortable and ask the pictures be taken down... no big deal. But as a photographer, if you take the picture, you own the picture and can distribute it as you will if there is no financial gain and you don't give their identity out, etc.

[zoomer]

I say it's absoulutly fine if you post it, and totally legal, but if you steal it and say it's your pet, I think THAT is wrong. But for example, if you're using a picture off the net for the Dog Breed thing in Dog Breeds, you post a picture, you're not stealing it or saying it's your dog, so it's fine. Besides, if they don't want their pictures copied there is such thing as you cannot right click on the pictures. For example go to a breed page on DogBreedInfo, it wont let you copy. Same with people's photos, they can make their site copy-proof.

[Argranade]

I would not mine realy if someone took a photo of my pet, it could show how much they realy like it or maybe they like that breed or somthen.

I would say taking as strangers photo with out asking and putting it on the internet is MUCH worse.

[Lori Jordan]

One thing you need to take into consideration is this is the internet,I dont think i would really care,I do not post any personal pictures on here,My dogs yes,and really what could be done with them,i think if people dont want there pics used they can put a right click protection on them which takes 2 seconds,Then everyone is happy.

[Miss Z]

Anyone who posts a picture on the internet has to be aware that people might copy it. Posting it on a board or using it in a presentation does no harm, but, as said before, when there is financial gain it is wrong. If people wanna make money from pictures, they should take their own pictures, IMO.

[Jessika]

One thing you need to take into consideration is this is the internet,I dont think i would really care,I do not post any personal pictures on here,My dogs yes,and really what could be done with them,i think if people dont want there pics used they can put a right click protection on them which takes 2 seconds,Then everyone is happy.

There are so many workarounds for that, though. The moment you view an image in your browser window, the image has already been downloaded to your hard drive via internet cache. And right-click scripts (95% of the ones used, anyway) only work in IE-powered browsers. They don't work in FireFox or Mozilla, etc, at all.

My suggestion is watermarking, or only putting up poor-quality high-compressed images on the net. KEEP the originals on your hard drive with the EXIF information (most, if not all, digital cameras nowdays include EXIF information the moment the image is captured). Just remember to never edit the originals and save over the originals. If you want to edit, save as, that way the exif will be intact on the original and that way if there ever IS a dispute, the copy you put on the net (so long as you did not upload the original) will not have the EXIF information but your original image will, as proof you took the image. (of course, yes there ARE programs out there that you can use to add or copy exif information from another picture)

Of course there are lots of other methods, but this is one I prefer.

But bottom line... if you don't want an image stolen... don't upload it anywhere on the inet.

[Randi]

Well, as long as a picture isn't copyrighted, I don't see anything wrong with using it in a forum like this. Since most pictures on the web are jpg's and only 72 dpi, you would not be able to do anything serious (making money) with it, as for printing, it would have to be at least 300 dpi, preferably more.