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Title: Do you use Picassa?
Post by: hospitalera on September 18, 2007, 03:08

Then you better should read this! http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2007/09/googles-new-photo-search.html (http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2007/09/googles-new-photo-search.html)
SY

Title: Re: Do you use Picassa?
Post by: leaf on September 18, 2007, 03:20

a good read there hospitalera - perhaps important to know.

and taken from the terms of use - if you have any images 'shared' there

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by submitting, posting or displaying Content which is intended to be available to the general public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such Content for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services." Thus, since your content is "available to the general public", and further, you've granted Google the right to "distribute" your work, "royalty-free", all recipients of the images recieve a royalty-free license to use them.

Title: Re: Do you use Picassa?
Post by: null on September 18, 2007, 04:24

Quote from: hospitalera on September 18, 2007, 03:08

Then you better should read this!

Well, that's it I guess. I used Picassa a short time since I am still looking for a photo database management system, but I was turned off by their amateurish buttons like crop/rotate/resize. You never know what algorithm is behind it, and they might degrade your shots. For now, I only trust the jpg lossless rotator of Irfanview.

In short, Picassa is overloaded with useless gadgets for stockers, imho. It's OK for a family album.

Title: Re: Do you use Picassa?
Post by: GeoPappas on September 18, 2007, 06:05

This is very bad news for the photo industry in general and stock photography specifically.

I would suggest searching for your images on Picasa to make sure that they aren't being given away for free.

I searched Picasa for "istockphoto" and it came up with 56 images.  Some of them are actual images that are being sold on IS.  Here is one example:

Picasa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/searchbrowse?psc=G&filter=1&q=istockphoto#22

iStockphoto:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/music/styles_of_music/disco/1386657_pink_disco_ball.php?id=1386657

I searched Picasa for "Shutterstock" and 98 images came up.  Some of them actually still have the Shutterstock watermark still on them.  Here is an example: http://picasaweb.google.com/esdrasnic/Paisagens1/photo#5078927035020710354

I searched Picasa for "Dreamstime" and only 4 images came up.  Here is one of them:

Picasa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/searchbrowse?psc=G&filter=1&q=dreamstime#1

Dreamstime:
http://www.dreamstime.com/a-pair-of-stress-balls-image597291

I searched for "Fotolia" on Picasa and 187 images came up.  So it seems that Fotolia customers care the least about copyright law.

Title: Re: Do you use Picassa?
Post by: sharply_done on September 18, 2007, 09:55

I experimented with this application when it came out and quickly abandoned it. Its target audience is people with p&s digicams who want an easy way to fix and manage their photos, and that's definitely not me.

Title: Re: Do you use Picassa?
Post by: Pixart on September 18, 2007, 10:14

I think that Istock image was a freebie once, I think I saw it before.

Leaf, that frost one isn't yours is it?  I thought I might have seen it before as well.