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Image searchengine resells your images - without paying you.
By Dabitch
Created Dec 22 2006 - 00:09

Do you have photographs online? You might be interested to know that Kvasir.no [1], an image searchengine not only displays your images but actually sells them to people for 10 NOK a pop - without sharing the revenue with the people who own the image.

Lets have a look shall we, search on Miklas [2] and the second image [3] is a photo I took of my man in the shoes I made for him a few years back. Search on Dabitch [4] and you'll even find my mother [5] in there. For cat lovers there's my cat [6], for scooter lovers there's my vespas [7] and for turtle lovers there's my turtle [8].

Pressefotografforbundet [9] in Denmark have a quote from lawyer August Ringvold who calls it "Plain image theft". Kvasir.no - which is owned by Eniro [10] - defends themselves saying that the images are only shown in 128*128 pixels and that there is no court precedent that forbids this. However, after pissing off thousands of photographers they have removed the "buy this image for your phone"-link, for now.


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Links:
[1] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/
[2] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/searchResult.html?searchExpr=miklas&x=0&y=0
[3] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/showImage.html?pageUrl=http://dabitch.net/index/polaroid16.html&imageUrl=http://dabitch.net/indeximages/miklas.jpg&imageUrlEncoded=&tbnHeight=116&tbnWidth=128
[4] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/searchResult.html?searchExpr=dabitch&x=0&y=0
[5] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/showImage.html?pageUrl=http://dabitch.net/index/polaroid18.html&imageUrl=http://dabitch.net/indeximages/mamma.jpg&imageUrlEncoded=&tbnHeight=116&tbnWidth=128
[6] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/showImage.html?pageUrl=http://dabitch.net/index/polaroid11.html&imageUrl=http://dabitch.net/indeximages/henry.jpg&imageUrlEncoded=&tbnHeight=116&tbnWidth=128
[7] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/showImage.html?pageUrl=http://dabitch.net/index/polaroid28.html&imageUrl=http://dabitch.net/indeximages/aaskscooter.jpg&imageUrlEncoded=&tbnHeight=116&tbnWidth=128
[8] http://www.kvasir.no/bilder/showImage.html?pageUrl=http://dabitch.net/index/polaroid10.html&imageUrl=http://dabitch.net/indeximages/graham.jpg&imageUrlEncoded=&tbnHeight=116&tbnWidth=128
[9] http://www.pressefotografforbundet.dk/index.php?id=3349&action=info
[10] http://www.eniro.com/en/
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