If a giant corporation takes a photo from one of my posts on flickr ipernity facebook else where, it wouldn't be the first time I'd been ripped off. Copyright has been so blatantly ignored on the Internet, that perhaps things will have to change. For instance, lets say you want to make a movie using commercial products, other peoples music, even video, film clips etc,... stills Let's say your entire project is bootlegged, Pauls Boutique, the Beastie boys is an example of copyright infringement. Copyright may be repealed like Prohibition.
Perhaps the only way to ensure your images are not capitalized on by someone else, is to not make images. Digital are linked to satellites, much as cell phones etc,... all digital photographs created by modern cameras are beamed directly to a huge main frame computer somewhere, so even if you delete an image it's already been instantly captured by some entity, corporation etc, who has created a storage vault for all current digital camera emissions. When they find a way to imbed film with a chip to essentially do the same thing we'll all be in trouble. It's not fair that commercial entities are exploiting the masses, but if it shows a profit margin they will continue to do this. For every stolen image that goes to court, there will be millions they get away with pilfering. It's a free for all.
