In her post, Stein talked about how, as artists, it is their choice if they decide to put their photographs on the computer and that it is highly likely that they will be re-posted in other places on the internet. She states that she is not against her photos being posted on the Internet in other websites as long as she is credited the picture.
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| The "Road Hog" Bus 1968 -Lisa Law re-post #80 |
I was interested in seeing how much pictures are re-posted on the Internet, so I found a website called tineye.com. Basically, this website is an image search engine that finds everywhere and image has been posted. I decided to test out this website by logging onto my Pinterest account and choosing an image on one of my boards. I then copied the URL of the image and pasted it into the search engine. After a couple minutes of searching, the website told me that the picture had been re-posted seventy-nine times over the internet. When I "re-pinned" this picture to my Pinterest board, I had no idea who the photographer was; it had been copied and pasted so much that it had lost the attribution to the photographer by the time I came across the picture. If it wasn't for the sake of this post, I wouldn't have gone on a search to find the photographer, but after a few Google searches, I came across Lisa Law. A photographer in the 1960's Lisa took this photo entitled The "Road Hog" Bus at the 1968 Fourth of July parade in El Rito, New Mexico (http://americanhistory.si.edu/lisalaw/1.htm).
I guess this post goes to show that how we as the "re-posters" need to credit every photo that we use. If we don't start this practice in our lives, seventy-nine re-posts later, we will never know who took the really awesome hippie bus picture.
I've never really thought about people's rights to their pictures before. Very interesting topic. I forget how not crediting people can be so harmful; if I took a picture and it was copied somewhere else I would definitely want my name attributed to the photo!
ReplyDeleteThat is a really interesting tool! I had no idea anything like that existed. I am definitely going to have to use that to look up some photos that I have posted! I can definitely see how that happens though. Whenever I need a picture, I just google the topic and look until I find one that works...
ReplyDeleteI like this idea. Although I'm sure it would be impossible for everyone who reposts images to always credit the original author, I do think it would be a good step in giving ownership where it is due. I also think the fact that you searched images to really see how many times they were reposted was a great idea. Good work.
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