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SXMScubaman said:
It's only a violation it it has a copyright on the picture. If it's posted on a public media without a copyright it's fair game. Trust me, knowledge by experience.


You're wrong on the 'copyright' issue. Fair Use is another thing altogether.

Social Media Examiner, regarding 17 USC Section 106.

Copyright attaches as soon as the original work is created, and applies to both published and unpublished works. As soon as you type words, click the shutter on your camera (or, for many of you, hit the home button on your iPhone), apply paint to canvas or paper or lay down tracks for your next hit, you’ve got a copyright (with some exceptions).

Copyright is an automatic right and does not require the author to file special paperwork, as is the case for trademark and patent. Registration is required to enforce the rights, but as a matter of right, an author is not required to register anything to get the right to use the “circle c,” showing the work is copyrighted.


gary


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