Copyrighted images?

[BasedBeyond]

I'm developing a website right now where users would email me their photos/art so I can post it on my online gallery. The conflict that I have is copyright. I know that every photo online is copyrighted, but what should I do if they send me a photo that violates a copyright?

Should I put a copyright disclaimer before they use the submission form on my website to submit their image(s)? Please help me out, it would be a bummer to end my development because of user submitted Copyright infringements.


Thanks:td:

 

[verbster]

This is fairly educational:
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/copyright-fair-use-and-how-it-works-for-online-images/

 

[dakhoco2]

I don't know. But it explains why Getty is willing to accept low quality images that no other photo agency would accept. A photographer friend was wondering why they wanted all her worst photos. All they need is some blogger to use the image (possibly thinking that such an amateurish image would never be copyrighted) and they have another live one.

 

[WritersWrite]

I don't know. But it explains why Getty is willing to accept low quality images that no other photo agency would accept. A photographer friend was wondering why they wanted all her worst photos. All they need is some blogger to use the image (possibly thinking that such an amateurish image would never be copyrighted) and they have another live one.

Regardless of Getty's motivation, everyone should assume every image is copyrighted until they have a legitimate reason to believe otherwise or they are confident that they have a fair use right to utilize it.

Once you are in the business of publishing content (or any other venture), you should at least know and comprehend the basic laws that govern it.

 

[Domainstore]

Very interesting to learn about these things.

 

[verbster]

Regardless of Getty's motivation, everyone should assume every image is copyrighted until they have a legitimate reason to believe otherwise or they are confident that they have a fair use right to utilize it.

Once you are in the business of publishing content (or any other venture), you should at least know and comprehend the basic laws that govern it.

True. And in many cases comprehending the basic laws will not protect you from deception; you can't rely upon users to be honest (unfortunately), just like you can't simply call your website photo gallery a newspaper and expect to get away with it.