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Has anyone else had the United States government steal their photo? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by PirateSeacow@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro
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Has anyone else had this happen to them? I had a D-List celebrity steal one and had a lawyer make them pay up but the US government is a bit of a different beast. I’ve had Cuba and Russia steal it too. I’m not sure it’s worth kicking that hornet nest.

I should probably copyright register it.

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[–] Precarious314159@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

As someone that does media for various branches, it's happens painfully often.

When I was with a library system, the head of the comms team downloaded a persons cooking video from youtube, edited out every instance of the channels logo on the bottom and clips of the persons face then uploaded it like "To celebrate this event, here's our recipe for this dish". They didn't see anything wrong with what they did. For Behavioral Health, they sent me a watermarked photo they liked and asked if I could just remove the watermark and use it for fliers.

Only person that ever double checked if we had a license for an image was up in admin. Everyone else had this surreal idea that if something was online, it was free to use.