Comments on: 17 Awesome Star Trail Images

By: Luis Argerich

Luis Argerich — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:34:00 +0000

I’m one of the photographers (flickr user lrargerich). I don’t allow commercial use of my images without permission and your site is displaying adds. Please remove my photos from your article.

By: Erica Dal Bello Stringhini

Erica Dal Bello Stringhini — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:42:00 +0000

Great article!! I love this kind of photos, and Im glad to know new great photographers! :D Thank you ;)

By: Erica Dal Bello Stringhini

Erica Dal Bello Stringhini — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:28:00 +0000

great!!!

By: Ricky

Ricky — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:57:00 +0000

I tried this out during the summer it was my first try what do you guys think?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuriouskoala/8285057705/in/photostream

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:22:00 +0000

8mm star trails with Polaris in the center :

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200215333088619&set=a.10200215293527630.197320.1311023437&type=1&theater

By: Laurent Staes

Laurent Staes — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:28:00 +0000

I checked my own Flickr about this option to allow sharing of images, since this is the first I heard of it. For one it is set to yes standard, and this is what Flickr says it means:
‘You can set a preference that determines whether sharing features (such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and others) are shown for other people on your public content. These features will always show for you on your content.’

This is clearly not the same as allowing a commercial website to use your image to make profit (traffic on your website is profit from advertisements etc). This is the option of the sharing buttons above your images (email, twitter, facebook). I am not saying I wouldn’t like my images to be here, since it’s great exposure, but I am pretty sure you’re still required to ask beforehand to the photographer if you’re allowed to share his image on Fstoppers. If you don’t, you might get a bill later on ;)

By: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:05:00 +0000

http://fstoppers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fs-star-trail-photography-710×463.jpg

Good to hear you had permission on the Time photos.

By: noamgalai

noamgalai — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:44:00 +0000

all the images in my Flickr articles are embedded..

as for the TIME thingy – it was approved ahead of posting ;)

By: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:55:00 +0000

I don’t know the precedent on embedding video, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s different from photos because in the common YouTube/Vimeo embedding scenarios, the trappings of YouTube/Vimeo remain apparent to the viewer. But I don’t know, sorry.

Frankly, I don’t think photo embedding should be considered “publishing” for copyright purposes (even though it’s my understanding that US courts don’t agree with me) and I wouldn’t have commented so strongly early in this thread if I had noticed that the majority of images were embedded, but Fstoppers is clearly hosting the lead image (as it does in all your “Flickr Spotlight” posts), and I didn’t have to look far into your posting history, Noam, to find lots of famous photos copied and rehosted on Fstoppers (e.g. http://fstoppers.com/time-magazine-2012-photos-of-the-year ). Those photos are licensed by AP, Reuters, Time, and others… since you “know a thing or two” about copyright, surely you secured proper licensing for all of them, correct?

By: tiredofit23

tiredofit23 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:40:00 +0000

Tony, I think by embedding your own youtube video here you are infringing on your own copyright. If you are, by chance, a lawyer, I would recommend hiring yourself to sue yourself for a ton of money. Plus, as lawyer, you get 1/3!