Comments on: Greeks & Copyrights

By: sugarenia.com - Web Standards, Accessibility & other Girly Stuff » Blog Archive » Why Greece will never succeed - Internetwise

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:27:49 +0000

[...] Reason #3: No respect for copyrights laws It’s not all about the music and how piracy kills it. When I devote my time to assemble a nice photo collage for use in my website, I don’t expect to see it everywhere in the greek internet. I don’t know why, but Greeks tend to ignore copyright laws as far as the Internet is concerned. And this does not concern only individuals… Even web design companies adopt this kind of techniques to get their job easily done. [...]

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:24:27 +0000

Copyright? In Greece? What’s that? Did you forget already all these books we were photocopying in the library? But to be honest, what do you expect when our own professors copy their notes from other Universities without even properly citing?

By: Sugar

Sugar — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:16:25 +0000

Just stating that the photos are taken from DA is not enough. After all, DA does not own these pics, the creators do.

It is, indeed, a big discussion.

Thanks for your kind words, anyway.

By: Jim K

Jim K — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:48:57 +0000

I've found two more pics from DeviantArtin the e-zine you mentioned above.To be frank they do mention that the photos are from DeviantArt but they don't have permission to copy them.There are various copyright and privacy policies ...blah ...blah on DeviantArt. Too bored to link them. The think you describe, in my opinion,is part of the reason our country is SO F#$^ed up.But that's a big discussion. Anyway, just found your blog and i rather like it.I'll keep on reading!

By: Sugar

Sugar — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:50:24 +0000

No edits, hun, no edits.

The second photo was used exactly as it is, a bit cropped maybe.

*sigh* some people…

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:46:26 +0000

Eeek! Where’s the edit comment plugin when you need it?

sarkasm –> sarcasm
inn –> in

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:40:06 +0000

*sarkasm* Now, to be fair, the artist who made the book cover changed the original design.
I assume that devianart has a disclaimer about copyrights, but are the works really protected? I believe it’s not, as long as the artist doesn’t have an official paper. Claims such as “I first posted this …” won’t hold in court. All inn all it’s sad that there are out there such people who call themselves professionals.

Btw, is the second photo used as it was originally created? I’m not a member at devianart and I can’t access the photo.

Now, on a funnier note, I always get a chuckle when I see people at livejournal, who create user icons based on movie stills, claiming copyright rights. Not quite, dear, I don’t think the studio gave permission for derivative work.