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This quick edit of images from Syria below was done in a few minutes using a free web app called Storify. All I had to do was type in keywords into a search that covers Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, G+ and many more, select the images I liked and publish it on my blog. Done.
No worries about credit, image ownership, licensing rights or any of the gates that protect copyrighted images.

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Let me be blunt. If you’ve been using Facebook to this point everything you fear has already been realized… too little, too late

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The theme of Thursday’s PhotoPlus Expo panel “Practicing Safe Social Media” seemed to be that social media is a necessary evil in today’s photography industry so photographers need to be smart about how they use it

Jim Romenesko

via Jim Romenesko: https://jimromenesko.com/

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Getty Images announcement today that it has put 35 Million of its 80 million images up for free is no surprise. Here’s why .

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A bizarre number of people John contacts about their use of his images tell him, “we found it on Google, it was free”, and when pushed, then say, “You forgot to put that it was copyrighted, it’s all your fault”.

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The courts have decided that displaying the search results (including images) for the education and benefit of the public is fair use. Now it seems that these displays can be made available to any end user for re-publication and re-distribution for non-commercial or commercial purposes.

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Enters Baidu, the chinese Google, who recently went public on the US market with a historical IPO. Baidu , like its western counterpart, offers a dedicated Image Search, at http://image.baidu.com/ . But unlike them, it offers a download option right in the thumbnail images. With one click, users can download to their desktop any image they see, making it even easier to steal images.

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