Some ideas for the photo area

[ConcordeNick]

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@ConcordeNick

@dbaker

ConcordeNick – I think you may be confused about the definition of fair use[/quote]

. It’s not a term that’s specific to FlightAware. Pretty much anything on the internet or in the world is subject to fair use.

This is the LAW in my country: Using images on the Internet

However, as FA is a US based company with its primary servers in the US, then US copyright law applies.

Your sanctimony aside, CA allows for “fair dealing” by news organizations with proper credit for the source.

I am not being sanctimonious in the least. I was simply asking that we have a system here of letting the user decide which level of use is allowed for his or her images. Just like Flickr which is also a US company with primary servers based in the US.

N.

[mduell]

@ConcordeNick

This is the LAW in my country: Using images on the Internet

“Although there are Web sites that allow free downloading of images, mostly for personal use only, many Web sites include copyrighted images. Permission to use images must be obtained from the copyright owner.”

Canadian copyright law is more stringent than American law. As an International website, you may have run afoul of our laws. I’m certain that other countries have different laws from ours too.

You might want to consider that angle of things.

I don’t believe we’ve fallen afoul of Canadian copyright law since we have the uploader agree they own the image and provide us the necessary license to the image.

@rw812

And isn’t the copyright done according to an international copyright thingamajig? I’m basing this on what is shown at the start of every movie DVD - the Interpol & FBI warnings.

WIPO helps to harmonize and integrate national intellectual property laws.

[nearLAX]

…hmm…glad I read this thread…I have to say I’m on the side of ConcordeNick and will have to be a bit careful when uploading in the future…

I was going to post my suggestion that those of us that do upload images, would appreciate if it was possible for us to go to our account and from there see what it is that we have uploaded…I do not keep a careful track of that and so it is very possible I might attempt to upload a picture I had already uploaded…

I don’t know if that causes an alert, but I don’t think so – I did upload one pict twice, but not by mistake – but because I noticed that the pict got cropped in an unfortunate way, so I re-worked pict and uploaded again – with same name, and no “alert”…

There is also the thing that some of us may be contributing to agencies that require exclusivity…so if we upload picts here, then we have forfeited our privilege to contribute same image to such site…but that’s a choice we will have to make in advance…

So now I’m going to upload a dazzling pict just for FlightAware…thanks for the thread…

[mtruman]

@PVUpilot

Hey guys,

I enjoy aviation photography as a hobby and try to upload good quality photos for people to enjoy on here (and other aviation sites) and have come up with some neat ideas. First, I think it would be cool to be able to have a section in the “My Alerts” where you could enter a tail number and when someone uploads a photo of that tail number, you get notified. That could be very cool for aircraft owners, or anyone who has ties to a tail number!

Second is a simple request. Could we have a little stat area on our main user page where it will show your number of photos uploaded, total number of views, average views per photo, and average rating per photo? these are two very good ideas i hope it can be arranged

Thats all I have but I really think those ideas would be something a lot of users would love to have and don’t seem like to hard of programming tasks to achieve it.

Thanks a lot! Hope to hear a reply!
Kyle