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Subject: Re: stockphotography
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:55:00 +0000
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On 23/12/2024 16:57, sobriquet wrote:
> 
> Often when you search for images, you can find nice images that are 
> ruined by watermarks.
> 
> But it's kind of odd that in many cases you can just search for the 
> image to find versions without watermarks.
> So somehow the logic doesn't seem to add up. If a stock agency sells an 
> image, someone who paid for it is entitled to use it on their site, but
> that means they are sharing a version of the image effectively, which 
> renders any attempt to protect the image with watermarks kind of silly.
> 
> For instance, take this image:
> 
> https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/2357607983/ 
> display_1500/stock-photo-close-up-of-tiny-water-droplets-on-a-spider- 
> web-set-against-a-black-background-2357607983.jpg
> 
> It looks like it's 'protected'. But with a little searching it's easy to 
> find 'unprotected' versions.
> 
> Like here:
> https://www.newscientist.nl/app/uploads/Multiversum-1.jpg


Fascinating subject matter! Thank you. 🙂

Here a stock photograph I found via Tin Eye:-

https://www.alamy.com/stained-glass-window-designed-by-george-cooper-abbs-and-made-by-wippell-co-east-window-st-peters-church-budleigh-salterton-image447995471.html

Here's a photograph I took of the very same window yesterday morning:-

https://i.ibb.co/WDgxz8s/F00403-FF-D720-4565-9509-726-D173066-F1-1-105-c.jpg

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Kind regards,
David
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas day.