RE: Copying Posts and Comments is Illegal
I have been seeing a lot of this too. To be honest, I've been questioning even the use of someone else's picture and sourcing them as well. Sometimes when I am writing an article, an image pops to mind. Creating the image could prove a tedious task with just basic photoshop knowledge. I see a lot of posts that are very in-depth well thought out articles with a bunch of sourced pictures. Apparently this is allowed for context as long as you are citing your source.
I still have a slight problem with this. It seems you do too.
For example, I used a snapshot in my most recent post of a dude taking down another dude. The source was already written on the picture, so I felt no need to "double source". However; I still don't feel great about using this picture because it wasn't mine. Do you agree with me? To make my post better, I originally wanted to act out that same pose and take a picture, thus making it mine, but I didn't have a second person, so I just sourced it in order to provide the proper pose in the scene I described.
What you've said pretty much confirms my thoughts that I should not have used the picture, sourced or not. This guideline would indeed make Steemit content so much more valuable and original.
There are sites like Pixabay where sharing images is encouraged. The photographers who place their photos on those websites want the exposure, and they receive donations via paypal. Others sell their photos to other sites who offer them free to us, and those sites make their money from ads. But for the ones who don't then it's theft.
Thank you! Where can I find a list of sites that offer photo's to the steemit community? I will lean towards creating my own scene pictures.
I post a list every couple months... here is one https://steemit.com/steemit/@arbitrarykitten/don-t-steal-images-how-to-get-free-and-legal-images
I like that plan :)
Actually, a lot of those "free" pictures we can't use on Steemit. i.e. Getty has free use, but they need to be embedded and lead back to their site and we can't embed anything here. There is a lot of misconception about the use of pictures and the citing. I am working on a podcast and blog post on that right now.
Many images used here are actually not legal to use :(
Your sources are great!!
Like Pixabay and Unsplash?