Photo-Sharing Site Need not Self-Police [View all]
Photo-Sharing Site Need not Self-Police
MANHATTAN (CN) - Kodak's photo-sharing social media website does not have the responsibility to police 9 billion of its images for evidence of copyright infringement, a federal judge ruled.
Sheila Wolk, a professional artist for more than 40 years, runs an online store that exclusively sells her work, but says she did not even know what a URL was before she signed up with Photobucket.com.
She took advantage of a feature that allowed her to put a watermark on her pictures to prevent users from downloading her images without paying her. She says she did not know that the software gives users tools to remove the mark.
In late 2007 or early 2008, Wolk noticed that her images were being copied, displayed and modified by other users. She told Photobucket about it months later.
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