Are you an ethical person?

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Maybe ethical isn't the totaly correct word... honest as well.

Is it ok to copy somebody else's work? ie a picture, or something somebody else wrote. Ok it is against the law to use it for profit, that is a given but it becomes a gray area otherwise. In the past we had somebody use one of our pics on Ebay so the issue has become a pet peeve of mine. Some people think it's ok to lift a pic off the web and say it's ok because it's public domain. I say no, it's the owners property and to use something without their permission is stealing.

What do you guys think?

Steve in NC

 

[Camelot Farms]

I was very excited to find a little button on my Picassa program that allows me to put my name or farm name on the bottom of each picture.

Some pics I guess I wouldnt mind someone borrowing IF they werent doing something unethical with it.

For example if I used a pic of someone elses chickens and said that they were the parent flock of eggs/chicks that I was selling to you.

Hows that for a very wishy-washy answer?

 

[mom'sfolly]

It not ethical to use someone else's intellectual property without permission. And that is true if it is print, image or recording. The only exception would be if it is copied for an educational purpose, and then it should be documented. Academics have a lovely word for using something that someone else wrote....its call plagerism. IMO it is flat out wrong.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Educational purposes, not-for-profit purposes, etc. are all fine if you wish to use someone else's photo.

Using a photo for the purpose of selling eggs, etc. and ESPECIALLY saying they are your own birds is a no-go and is not ethical under any circumstance.

 

[TexasVet]

Everything you create is automatically copyrighted, even if you post it on the Internet. Unless, of course, you say that it's free for anyone to use. (See copyright rules at www.copyright.gov).

That said, you are allowed "fair use" of someone else's work. A good rule of thumb is that you can use up to 20% of someone else's work, as long as you credit the source of the material. Here are the "official" rules:

The fair use of a copyrighted work, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include— (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copy-righted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copy-righted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.

That's why I asked people on this site to send me pics of funky eggs that I can post on my Website. There are tons of pic on the Internet, but I won't use them without written permission.

Kathy, Bellville TX
Independent Writer/Editor
www.CountryChickens.com, www.PivotalForce.com

 

[debilorrah]

Using something someone wrote is plagarism..... Using someone else's pic on Ebay is not only unethical, but downright rude.

 

[patyrdz]

Someone on Ebay used one of my pictures too! I did not think it would bother me, but is sure did!!!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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I read that to and I was suprsied by the

Everything you create is automatically copyrighted, even if you post it on the Internet.

part. I didn't know that.

Ebay was actually very good about our problem

Steve​

 

[BlackBart]

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That would bug me.

Somebody took pictures of my horses and made posters out of them and they sold for big bucks, I didn't get one cent but if I wanted them to take pictures of my horses it would cost me big bucks.................go figure?
To top it off they put a different name on the horse......

There is a stallion that is regularly dyed to appear to be solid black, that is, to me, unethical and misrepresentation but is it against the law.........?

 

[Camelot Farms]

Black Bart wrote:

There is a stallion that is regularly dyed to appear to be solid black, that is, to me, unethical and misrepresentation but is it against the law.........?

Wasnt there a bunch of media frenzy over the lady who had survived breast cancer and was dying her little dog pink? PETA was all over that but you can dye an ENTIRE horse black?

Where is the sense in that?