The DMCA on 7 Photo Sharing Sites

Published: August 16, 2007, 1:58 pm

Tags: legal issues, personal experiences, articles, dmca, content theft, copyright infringement, copyright law, flickr, image theft, imageshack, notice takedown, photobucket, plagiarism, safe harbor, smugmug, snapfish, webshots, zooomr

Previously on this site, I reviewed the DMCA policies of the top 5 social news sites. I found, as might be expected, that the policies on the five different sites varied wildly both in terms of how they were implemented and how robust they were. Differences between the sites became clear as sites with more money, and thus better access to legal advice, had much more complete policies than those with more humble means. However, social news is not the only growing segment of the Web. As digital photography and online artwork has become easier and more accessible, photo sharing and image hosting services have also grown rapidly in size. However, the boon in online image hosting has also given birth to a sharp rise in image theft. Now, anyone with a Flickr account can trivially download an image and post it to the Web. There’s no need to have a Web site at all and the image can be embedded anywhere desired, including on social networking sites. This has made the copyright

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