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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Image Sleuth => Topic started by: U11 on April 10, 2015, 13:32
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Look at this "Image library" (you can click randomly or do it through Google translate)
http://images.lib.cycu.edu.tw/index.php?controller=client&action=entryList (http://images.lib.cycu.edu.tw/index.php?controller=client&action=entryList)
it is full of stock pictures. I found it occasionally searching for my popular illustration use . What can be done about it?
Probably some contributors from there are participating in this forum and can give some advice?
Similar story is famous alibaba site. They formally have English interface and have some procedure to complain about copyright but way it is implemented make it practical impossible. I tried to contact vendors which are selling items with my pictures directly, but they just sending me smiles and asking to send them more pictures. It makes me angry a bit.
Any positive experience?
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Taiwan (aka R.O.C. - Republic of China) and China (PRC - People's Republic of China) are two different countries wth different legislation.
having lived in China PRC i would forget about it, piracy is absolutely tolerated and encouraged at any level and same goes in Taiwan.
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I agree with Hobostocker. I live in Taiwan and copyright laws are generally ignored. But that is a university site which should be holding itself to higher standards. Have you tried e-mailing the university?
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copyright has no meaning in asia, unless you violate their copyright.
my experience with asians in general is they have no respect for copyright. in their mind you either copyright or you copywrong.
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I think i've said this before but i'll say it again. I tend to think if the country can monetize off its content creators in the form of taxes and such, they will have laws that will protect or enforce copyright holders/violators. I don't think china has laws protecting content creators because china doesn't benefit from it... yet
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China doesn't pay for Microsoft Office or windows Operating systems so good luck with our already wimpy copyright protection on images! :-[
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Have you tried e-mailing the university?
yes I did same day I've started the topic, no answer yet
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I think i've said this before but i'll say it again. I tend to think if the country can monetize off its content creators in the form of taxes and such, they will have laws that will protect or enforce copyright holders/violators. I don't think china has laws protecting content creators because china doesn't benefit from it... yet
what is bothering me that they selling products with my picture on, through alibaba to anywhere in the world , I care less about them selling in china
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Sad, but we were wondering when China would enter the microstock market- I think we have our answer now :'(
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China doesn't pay for Microsoft Office or windows Operating systems so good luck with our already wimpy copyright protection on images! :-[
i bought my first Lenovo laptop in Beijing and it came with a genuine OEM windows XP in chinese and they installed for free a pirated english version for me.
my second Lenovo laptop, bought in Vietnam, same story but no OEM dvd included and in plus the guys at the store asked me to fill a form where i could select other apps to pre-installed, the list stretched from MS Office to full versions of Autocad and Visual Studio ! wow .. and the whole thing was attached to the receipt when i went back to pay and take the laptop.
now, if it's fully legal and sold as a premium service to install cracked copies of Autocad in the biggest computer shops you can guess how much protection we can expect regarding copyright and image theft ...
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copyright has no meaning in asia, unless you violate their copyright.
my experience with asians in general is they have no respect for copyright. in their mind you either copyright or you copywrong.
i remember a crackdown in bangkok's chinatown many years ago about pirated THAI music, of course nothing was done about foreign pirated music.
the problem is, unless you live in japan/korea/hongkong/singapore it's still a wild west, the police won't move a finger unless you pay, many expats are killed every week in south east and the cops close the case as suicide or heart attack ... just to give you an idea.
if they make crackdowns against piracy is usually because the shopowners refused to pay a bribe to the cops, they coudn't give two sh-its about copyright or whatever.