Re: [artshow_photo] Google Image Search

There's an attorney that consults with commercial photographers on
the advertising photography forum who's advising against using it.
You know what they say about paranoia. I may be paranoid but that
doesn't mean that they're not out to get me.

Larry

>Someone is being very paranoid! I don't see any rights grabbing going
>on, they just say that to the extent that they need to make copies of
>the content in order to provide the service that you grant them the
>right to make those copies. They may need to convert the image to a
>different display mode, invert it, resize it, perform mathematical
>perversions of it, heaven only knows what all else they need to do
>internally to make their matching magic work, not to mention move those
>modified images hither and yon to whatever datacenter might be working
>on different parts and no matter who owns the different wires and
>computers. And yes, they're doing this for all comers, so they may be
>making all of these changes as part of searches they are running on
>behalf of someone else. And all of this is very specifically done only
>for the purpose of providing the service which, it seems to me, is
>primarily of value to the legitimate owner of the image.
>
>This looks absolutely legitimate and reasonable to me, they've covered
>all the bases they can think of to make sure an artist doesn't use the
>service and then sue them for a copyright violation. Note that they
>generally maintain that they have pretty much all of these rights to
>start with, their entire business is based on having the right to find
>and display content that has been placed on the web by other parties.
>But they have learned that their pockets are so deep that they have to
>cover their asses more than most players.
>
>Van

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