how they can do that?

there are thousands of celebrity wallpapers site on internet. But how they can use these wallpapers on their site. Its obvious that they aren't the owner of these images. is their any legal disclaimer or it or its total violation.

Examplse site - http://www.skins.be (200000 unique visits a day, daily updated with celebrities that usually cost millions per photoshoot)

 

yes i am also interested in this..
would love if someone can shed some lights in this subject

 

if you take a pic of someone the copyright to that picture is yours.

not the person who is in the photo

therefore if i take a pic of david beckham i can sell that picture in various ways

if i choose to sell it as a package with other pics in the form of wallpapers with resellable rights then i can do

so i can pass the rights to the picture on to whoever i want

also if you modify a picture enough to make it in effect a new picture then again it is your copyright

but to be honest i imagine they are using pictures they found on the netsomewhere without the owners permission and the owner cant be arsed to follow it up

hope this helps

 

Imagine that the internet is a big candy store and instead of having a sales person at the cash register there is just a sign that reads "We trust you."

Theft of intellectual property is how the internet was built.

 

That's not correct. Usage is not that cut and dry.

So, if I walked into your hotel room and took a picture of you, I could use it on the Internet?

Of course not.

 

marketjunction is right;

there are a lot of rules;

that is why newspaper photographers have to get permission from people in the photos before publishing it unless it happens in a public place; other rules apply to photos of famous people / poiliticians = public persons; and artwork.

the wallpaper site is making money (i see adbrite on the top) ; it is surely copyright infringment ... but its in belgium!

 

It looked you guys didn't understood what i m trying to ask.

If I someone steal a picture from a picture agency's site and use it on his own site. I know its illegal but how sites like skins.be can do that. They obviously cannot afford these celebrities for photoshoot by showing some adbrite ads.

Is there any legal disclaimer for escape the law.

 

Also you see the same picture accross a variety of sites... surely these pictures are not all purchased, copy and paste?

 

yes thats what I m trying to ask

 

they are probably bought from a similar source, but most likely the person selling doesn't have any rights, they just compiled all the images. I think these sites are illegal.

 

need 100% answer

 

The 100% answer is that it is illegal but most people don't care

 

It's virtually impossible to catch everything that happens. I've had articles copied, but I really can't sit there and every few days run comparisons on every article and blog post I've written, and I only write part time. I can't imagine how a professional photographer keeps up with things.

 

That is exactly how it works. You have nailed it man!