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Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu)
The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that internet users must ask for a photographer's permission before posting their images online, even if the photos were already freely accessible on other websites. "The posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorization by that author," the EU's top court said in a statement. Politico reports: The court had been asked to decide on a case in Germany, in which a secondary school student downloaded and used a photo that had been freely accessible on a travel website for a school project. The photo was later posted on the school's website as well. The photographer who took the picture argued the school's use of his photo was a copyright infringement because he only gave the travel site permission to use it, and claimed damages amounting to 400 euros (~$463). The ECJ ruled in the photographer's favor, saying that under the EU's Copyright Directive, the school should have gotten his approval before publishing the photo.
I'm just amazed that the school bothered to even challenge this, it's so blindingly obvious.
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"For 400€ of damages no less."
This is about the law, about applying it and with sane amounts.
I never understood the USA courts asking for millions of dollars for every little fucking thing, when 99.999999999% of people would never be able to pay even 0.1% of such a ruling.
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The only thing this addresses is the entitlement of millennials. They think that just because they can access something online, that they are free to use it for anything they want.
The photographers are the ones with the misplaced sense of entitlement. They are the ones wielding an artificial, government-granted privilege as though it were some kind of natural right.
Also, I dislike this "millennials" charicature. Not everyone born in this age range is entitled, irrational, and deeply intolerant. There are civilized and respectful young people out there, I'm sure of it.
Fair use doctrine has explicit clauses that allow the use of photographs or video clips for educational purposes / student projects in the U.S.