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manchado photos in the gallery

Daylene Alford June 28, 2011 June 28, 2011

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[quote]I am curious who you asked to use the photos of Trabag and Royal Manchado? I'd love to contact them, too.[/quote] We did have permission to post these? I known I'm not the one who loaded them and they don't have any information with them.

Maigray Tue, 06/28/2011 - 20:16

I loaded them. I have no idea where they came from, they've been on my hard drive for years and years from the old site. I didn't think Trabag mattered, as I don't know where most of the historical photos come from, but if there's no disclaimer with Royal Manchado, that's my fault. There is one other photo - an Arabian in the rabicano gallery - I didn't know where he came from and I put in a disclaimer. Figured if someone wanted to claim them, they could, but they're both scattered around the internet on various sites.

Daylene Alford Tue, 06/28/2011 - 20:38

If you would could you add a disclaimer to the photos? If Trabag was a 1946 model then the photo would still be copyrighted.

Maigray Tue, 06/28/2011 - 20:46

Of course, I should have put one up with Royal Manchado anyway. Do you want me to take them down? I honestly didn't think about it with Trabag.

Daylene Alford Tue, 06/28/2011 - 20:59

No, I'd hate to remove them. The copyright holder will probably never call our hand on it anyway. Just put down that they are on the internet and the copyright holder is not known but if someone wants to claim them we will add credit or something to that effect.

Maigray Tue, 06/28/2011 - 22:42

I think I actually did add it and just forgot. It's not on the summary of the photo under the thumbnail. You have to click and see the whole caption. Huh.

Monsterpony Tue, 06/28/2011 - 23:37

It wasn't me. But all this copyright stuff is why I just take pictures of every horse I see so I have my own library of images for posting.

Maigray Wed, 06/29/2011 - 09:58

I did think it was permissible to post for educational purposes? Doesn't Wikipedia do that?

Daylene Alford Wed, 06/29/2011 - 10:07

Everything that is on Wikipedia is supposed to be in the public domain. They are all uploaded by individuals and when someone uploads something they have to agree that they are the copyright holder and that they are willingly placing it in the public domain.

Google gets away the showing images because they don't actually host the images. They are all linked to the owners site and when clicked on take you to that site.

Technically educational purposes are fine but there is a huge gray area and since there are ads on this site (even though they don't even pay the hosting costs) someone could make trouble if they really wanted.

Maigray Wed, 06/29/2011 - 10:23

The headshot of El Mokhtar in the Famous Horses gallery is from Wikipedia and it is specifically noted in the article that it is not an open source photo.

I do also have plenty of images up where I received permission from the site owner, but they are historical/famous photos, like Misty's Heaven, Flicka, etc. But I guess they would not hold original copyright either?

Daylene Alford Wed, 06/29/2011 - 10:36

That is the first wikipedia photo I've seen done that way. Interesting.... The way you have that one referenced back to wikipedia is good I think that should be fine. The only change I would make is to state it is non-free in the description so people don't say "Oh look wikipedia it's a free photo."

The photos from other web sites I would leave as long as you have a used by permission and a link. If it came right down to it we could claim that we thought they were the copyright holder since they had it posted without credit and gave us permission to use it.

I'm just guessing here really. We'll just have to do the best we can and try not to screw up to bad. If the site ever makes enough money I should probably have a lawyer look at stuff :rofl

NZ Appaloosas Fri, 07/08/2011 - 01:37

My take? Unless you've got someone who is free to give better advice, wait until someone complains. They can't just slap you with a lawsuit, there are steps that need to be taken, AND copyright law does give leeway when copyrighted material is used for non-commercial, non-profitting educational purposes.

Diane

Maigray Thu, 07/14/2011 - 16:03

I'm making an effort to pull all the copyright tags into the summary on the photos, not just the captions, so they can be seen right away.

Daylene Alford Thu, 07/14/2011 - 23:03

If you go to the standalone gallery at http://equine.colorgenetics.info/equine… (You may have to reset your password. Not sure why but sometimes it won't let you login.) Anyway there should be an option on the left side that says edit captions. You can edit multiple captions at once. That may make things go alot faster as you can edit more than one at at time.