{"id":147,"date":"2021-10-16T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/almuten.co.uk\/?p=147"},"modified":"2021-10-16T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T16:48:29","slug":"heres-50-for-your-talk-and-a-1000-bill-for-copyright-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almuten.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/16\/heres-50-for-your-talk-and-a-1000-bill-for-copyright-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s \u00a350 for your talk \u2013 and a \u00a31,000 bill for copyright breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plenty of us astrologers enjoy giving talks, whether it\u2019s to a local group, or at an astrology conference. We don\u2019t do it for the money (astrology groups aren\u2019t rich, and usually just cover travel expenses), but because we love our art. We often brighten up our presentations with some relevant images, too. If you\u2019re giving a talk about Albert Einstein or Greta Thunberg, it makes sense to have a picture of them to illustrate it, together with images that relate to the topic you\u2019re talking about. Where can you get such images? Well, Google has loads, so popping an image into your presentation is dead easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is, it may be illegal. If you find an image on Google, somebody created that image, whether it\u2019s a photo, a drawing, or a diagram. They own the copyright to it, and if you use it without their permission, they might sue you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far fetched? After all, there were only 20 people at your talk \u2013 who\u2019s going to find out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, there\u2019s a very good chance that if you allowed your talk to be recorded, or you provided a handout, that the recording or handout will end up on some webspace somewhere; YouTube, for instance, or a local group\u2019s Facebook page. And when something is on the web, it can be found, not just by people, but by web \u201cspiders\u201d whose sole purpose in cyberspace is to crawl the web looking for images. Some of those spiders are owned by major press agencies, and they\u2019re looking for very specific images \u2013 ones they own the copyright to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That seemingly innocent photo you used of a speeding train, or a famous person, might be the copyright of a major press agency. And they don\u2019t care whether you were paid \u00a350 or \u00a350,000 for your talk; as far as they\u2019re concerned, their image is worth \u00a3500, and you used two of them, so you get sent a bill for \u00a31,000 for breach of copyright in \u201cfull and final settlement\u201d of the \u201cdamage\u201d that you\u2019ve caused \u2013 and to rub salt into the wounds, you have to take the offending presentation down and aren\u2019t allowed to use it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this mean we astrologers have to resort to giving boring text-dense presentations with no nice pictures? Not at all! Fortunately, there are ways of using great images, and staying within the law so you don\u2019t end up with a nasty surprise in the form of a hefty bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/631959695\/bea3a36ff8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check out my 10-minute video<\/a> of staying on the right side of this minefield. And no, I won\u2019t sue you if you download it and share it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of us astrologers enjoy giving talks, whether it\u2019s to a local group, or at an astrology conference. We don\u2019t do it for the money (astrology groups aren\u2019t rich, and usually just cover travel expenses), but because we love our art. We often brighten up our presentations with some relevant images, too. 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