{"id":4982,"date":"2015-03-30T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/5-tips-on-how-to-use-photos-without-infringing-on-copyright\/"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:15:53","slug":"5-tips-on-how-to-use-photos-without-infringing-on-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/critique\/2015\/03\/30\/4982\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips on How to Use Photos Without Infringing on Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">There is constant talk of <a href=\"\/problems-with-picture-use-in-armenian-media\">the unlawful use of photos<\/a> [AM] in Armenia&#8217;s media industry. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/723956191050784\/\">a Facebook group<\/a> was created to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Take the case of photographer Edgar Barseghyan: Armenian news site News.am used one of Edgar&#8217;s photos without permission. And though the news outlet later removed the photo from the site and apologized, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10205926765506320&amp;set=a.1073413593628.2011944.1174821082&amp;type=1&amp;permPage=1\">photographer intends<\/a> to take the matter to court if he doesn&#8217;t receive financial compensation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The court accepting the photographer&#8217;s lawsuit is not a sure thing. I don&#8217;t remember such a precedent in Armenia, but in Russia, the lawsuit of bloggers Ilya Varlamov, Pavel Semyonov, Yevgenya Zolotukhina, Sergei Mukhamedov, and Aleksandr Popov against <em>Argumenty i Fakty<\/em> (&#8220;Arguments and Facts&#8221;) is well known. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It ended with the <a href=\"http:\/\/pravo.ru\/court_report\/view\/83880\/\">applicants&#8217; victory<\/a> [RU]: the court obliged <em>Argumenty i Fakty<\/em> to pay 20 thousand RUB (about $345 USD) for each photograph. Overall, it turned out to be more than 2 million RUB (about $34,480).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In Armenia, newsrooms are the exception when<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">they have their own staff photographer<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">they purchase photos from photo agencies<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">they have their own database of photos<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">they avail of stocks of photos that are free to use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">Without these four components, Google Image Search remains the hope of local newsrooms \u2014 strictly speaking, the first page of the search results. But even here there&#8217;s the ability <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/29508?p=ws_images_usagerights&amp;hl=en&amp;rd=1\">to filter for photos<\/a> that are free to use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You can search according to usage rights and, maintaing usage rules, not infringe on copyright. I&#8217;m talking about Creative Commons licenses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7618\/16975749481_8b26871aef.jpg\" alt=\"google-image-search\" width=\"500\" height=\"126\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>1. Creative Commons licenses<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\">Creative Commons licenses<\/a> were created to protect copyright. There&#8217;s even a place on the site where you can easily search in various resources for work with a Creative Commons license.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>2. Images in the public domain and free to use<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Usually, photos enter the public domain 70 years after the death of the author and are free to use. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources\">huge archive<\/a> of resources of such photos. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> is among the most well-known. I often use photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">Pixabay<\/a>, but the choice really is great.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>3. The ability to embed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr, from among the well-known social networking sites, allow you to embed a photo on a website, with its corresponding code and attribution, and move it without violating copyright.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7615\/16788964748_089d1cfb16_o.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter-embed\" width=\"499\" height=\"606\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Embedding provide many opportunities for websites. Getty Images, for instance, allows you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/embed\">to embed its photos<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For example, you can easily use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/armenian-president-serzh-sargsyan-shakes-hands-with-chinese-news-photo\/467476252\">this photo<\/a> of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in China on your site and not violate the copyright of its author, Feng Li.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>4. Photos for the press<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There are large companies that provide photos for use by the press; for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbus.com\/presscentre\/pressroom\/high-res-photos\/\">Airbus<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/mar\/29\/forensic-teams-identify-78-dna-strands-from-remains-at-germanwings-crash-site\">Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps<\/a> was an Airbus, and the company&#8217;s stock of photos could&#8217;ve come in handy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>5. Make arrangements with the author of the photo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Journalism, first of all, is about communication. A newsroom can always try to make arrangements with the author of the work by simply calling and asking for permission to use the photo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I&#8217;m sure News.am, for example, could&#8217;ve reached an agreement with Edgar Barseghyan, if the culture of working with authors of photographs was entrenched inside the newsroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">There is constant talk of <a href=\"\/problems-with-picture-use-in-armenian-media\">the unlawful use of photos<\/a> [AM] in Armenia&#8217;s media industry. 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