as part of the blog I setup to host my conversations with the arts community, I embedded images pulled from flickr. This is set to load the 3 latest images that were geo-tagged with being from Portland and would auto change, so only the latest 3 images showed and I find they were being continuously updated.
A photographer who had posted onto their flickr page and tagged it with Portland thus showed up on my site and they have complained I have infringed their copyright. What do you think, have I?
I have changed the image categories I was linking to so that this person’s images no longer showed. And apologised to the person. But I was wondering;
1. Technically have I in fact infringed their copyright?
I have not downloaded their image. I have not specifically chosen their image. It is embedded into my site from their page on flickr, thus if someone clicks on the image from my site they go to the photographers page (and thus find out more about this persons work).
2. generally is it wrong to use this type of embedded random image loading?
For me personally I would not be concerned and in fact welcome the extra exposure it might gain my work. In fact that is why I stick images up onto flickr. If I had the skill I would change the code used to grab these images to include authors name. But is this just my openness to use of my work.
I’d welcome your thoughts on this. You can see the changing images on the site http://creativedialog.wordpress.com
episode 7 of creative conversations
This week I am joined by artist Susan Hughes, who had organised an exhibition at Weymouth Library. We talk about the exhibition she has arranged and put on. About Weymouth artists group, ArtWey CIC and how she fits within this group. About the ArtWey Big Draw and cultural Olympiad project, ‘the Giant Wall’.
http://creativedialog.wordpress.com
We talk about being a professional artist, about finding your audience and selling your work. Susan talks about coming back to drawing and the influence that Betty Edwards’ method of drawing has had on her. We hear about her life drawing class and how working with a spreadsheet helped her convince herself that these classes could work. That artists should not be afraid of dealing with money, that a bit of a business head is good. But it is a struggle to manage all aspects of being an artist, of marketing, doing the admin, bookkeeping and finding time to produce your work.
The most important thing though is to just enjoy making work. To enjoy that quiet space to produce your work. To find a way to make it as enjoyable as you can and realise that it is going to be difficult.
have some new audio visual work shown at counterText11 in Bridport. It’s a great opportunity to meet other artists and talk about our work, our ideas and future possibilities. Been really great to be part of this show.
Episode 6 of creative conversations is now online at; http://creativedialog.wordpress.com
This week I finish my conversation with Alan Rogers, Cultural Coordinator as part of the Weymouth and Portland 2012 Operations Team, at Weymouth Pavilion.
We start by talking about how he balances the difficult decisions of working within a limited budget. We go onto hear what Alan thinks about the long lasting effect of the cultural Olympiad on this area. & I end by picking Alan’s experience about ways artists can build in sustainability in the incredibly precarious career of artists practice.
It’s easier to do these recorded conversations with people I do not know & i have decided to not give participants a chance to review my draft edit. I clearly state at the start what i am about and what is to happen with my recordings. I emphasis that the recordings will go onto the internet and who knows who may end up hearing what they have said, so they should be careful.
Also they can now listen to olde recordings, to my previous conversations, so that gives people an idea of the show.
