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Originally Posted by hotspur
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I think this thread should be an eye opener to all here,not a legal debate.
There was one poor IIS member here-in NZ I think that takes photos of racing cars,a car team at the races used one of his images in their business-he even approached them about it-and never got any acknowledgement.So just makes one think a bit more about their images,and how they might handle them,I know I think about this NZ members' story when handling certain images.
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T'was me, I shut down the business, Rallyshotz, not long after, no money to be made. If people are just going to 'borrow' your pix without paying whats the point of a business. basically it was stealing my income and justification for being there. Not to mention expenses, I flew Auckland > Dunedin for one event plus rental car and accommodation and drove thousands of kilometers covering various Rally stages, even interview pics with Petter Solberg and Marcus Gronholme.
I still take motorsports pix but for my own pleasure now. If someone asks they can have a copy. If they want to pay for better then I am happy to oblige but if my livelihood depended on photography under some of the stated reasons against copyright on here then I would starve to death.
Legal or moral definition, I regard it as theft.