So recently I received an email about a copyright violation from using an image without the consent of the owner. It's a lack of courtesy on my part to obtain permission, nor crediting the image at all, but in my perspective - most of my content has always been about the writing, albeit with the inclusion of visuals to inspire some imagery. This is the reason why I rarely have any posts tagged under photography and visual design. Plus, I used to have a past-time saving up nice graphics I find online, often without any good way to trace back to their origins. And what happens if I remix them up?
To my self-defense: here's an old post about my take on the concept of Intellectual Property - https://steemit.com/philosophy/@kevinwong/the-end-of-intellectual-property-on-imagination-artificial-intelligence-and-procedural-generation
And so, dealing with my first incidence of such a matter, my response to the related material is the following:-
Sorry about the use of the image without your consent. It's easy to forget about the implications of using the work of others to accompany my writing when the information is freely available online. Being an uncensorable blockchain, what I can only do now is to:-
- Invite you over to the platform.
- Write a letter of apology and introduce your account.
I hope this is an acceptable solution as the Steem blockchain disallows any edits after a certain time - and the post has been well over 6 months old. Steemit is a great way to monetise content and community contributions - we're always looking out for talents to support. The inability to delete / edit out content may seem weird, but here's the gist of the technology involved - https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
While I personally do not care if anybody wants to use my work available online without my consent at all, I do feel sorry about whatever I've done to have caused someone distress in this fashion. However, I would like to stress again that my content is implied in the writing unless if it's obviously something else. What are your thoughts on this?