IMAGE COPYRIGHT – A CAUTIONARY TALE
Some club members may have seen news in the recent PAGB and EAF bulletins regarding copyright infringements by a member of the Davyholme CC which resulted in Alamy (an online stock library) threatening to fine the club £500 for illegal use of the image. They were lucky that the originator and copyright holder and Alamy took a lenient view which saw the issue closed without further issue.
Remember it is easy for the likes of Googlebot-image search to carry out a search of the internet to find these issues.
Please see the linked bulletin
https://www.pagbnews.co.uk/search/node/361
http://www.eaf.org.uk/the-bulletin.html
Having checked last year’s winning images some indicate a different artist to that of the original author. This may be simple oversight, it may even be that a camera, purchased used, still contains the copyright data of the original owner, best to check!
That leads me on to the rules of club competitions. Although the current rules do not make it explicit; all of the work submitted by club members must be their own work. This includes textures and text passages and other images used as overlays or skys used in sky replacement. So bottom line if you need a texture, make it from one of your images if you need text construct it yourself if you need a sky replacement take the image of the sky yourself. You will invariably get more satisfaction out of your work and nobody can take that away!
Club rules will be amended to reflect the above for the 24/25 season.
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for entering a competition are shown here -> COMPETITION RULES
You must comply with these guidelines, otherwise your entry may not be accepted
YOU MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE CLUB TO ENTER A COMPETITION
The Programme Secretary will send information to all members well before each competition
