"May I steal your image?"
I remember an introduction of a kind of speaking dictionary I had seen in the years I was not aware of a future with intelligent computers, automatic translation, and other tools for communication and sharing life at light speed. It had a built-in question to be asked in six languages:
"May I take your photograph?"
It should have been developed to help the photographers shooting pictures in other countries.
The world is different now. I am sure our images exist in many temporary and permanent, personal and official records. They are being archived, copied, and shared unlimitedly. These images are not limited with our faces and bodies together with our lives, but they include everything we have and produce. Protecting the rights of a book is not as easy and simple like before now; as it could be when texts and images were written, drawn, and copied manually. The question above can still have a meaning for pictures close at portrait level, but I don't think it can be possible to limit the pictures taken with phone cameras.
This limitation problematic is also valid for text and image quotes. A text quote can be defined as "a small part or a summary of an original text used for a specific purpose giving reference to the source, and an image quote can be "a small part or a low resolution copy of an original image.
Using a product without making an agreement to define and protect mutual rights is neither ethic nor legal. However, in the era of communication at light speed, it is not so easy to create an efficient system to manage the giant data growing exponentially. Asking permission for taking a picture of a face in the crowd of daily life or using an image posted in the social communication system is not practically possible. In a world of monitoring networks and face recognition technics, our faces are inevitably public. It may be useful to define public and copyright protected data simply but effectively.
Public data: Informative data that can be used freely for non-commercial purposes.
Copyright protected data: Data created with investment in time and resources for a specific product.
For clarification, a picture at high resolution and a full text should be considered as informative public data which can be used freely giving reference to the source if they are accessible on Internet, but a product must not be made open to public and must not be used without a mutual agreement.
There is no need to ask "May I take your picture?" to everyone in the crowd of the street or request permission for quoting a text or an image information available in any media, as long as they are not used commercially. However in case of a commercial product, I don't think the famous word "borrowing" will be a good alternative for "stealing", since what had been taken will not be returned. It will be better to ask as "How much I have to pay for this to use in this way?" or directly as "May I steal your image or text?" if you don't intend to pay.
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Selim read what he had written carefully. It was not a story. It was a reflection from the past. It was a trial for explaining what was going on in the new life styles that the odd era of communication at light speed had brought. People had not been trustable during the mechanical age. People were still not trustable in the electronic age. Mechanical doors and keys had been replaced with digital doors and keys. Data in the form of images, sounds, and texts were everywhere. People were swimming in an ocean of data. The new communication system would really bring a new era if they could all be enlightened with the power of knowledge. However, knowledge was too far away. It had been lost behind the curtains of vast and meaningless data, arbitrary data created for no reason, or for disinformation. In the mechanical age of the past, it was difficult and time consuming to reach and access knowledge. In the electronic age of communication at light speed, it was easy and fast to contact with giant data, but there was not sufficient time to reach, understand, develope and use knowledge. It was possible to steal images, sounds, texts, and any kind of information and knowledge materials. It was not possible though to extablish real and strong connections based on knowledge and wisdom. Bodies and minds owned everything, but they had nothing of their own. They were just receiving and transmitting the signals coming from infinite number of sources. They had lost their individualities, existences, and futures.
Selim's Tiny Stories
https://www.facebook.com/mehmetarat2000X/photos/a.2055672671213670/2057030411077896/?type=3&theater"May I steal your image?"
I remember an introduction of a kind of speaking dictionary I had seen in the years I was not aware of a future with intelligent computers, automatic translation, and other tools for communication and sharing life at light speed. It had a built-in question to be asked in six languages:
"May I take your photograph?"
It should have been developed to help the photographers shooting pictures in other countries.
The world is different now. I am sure our images exist in many temporary and permanent, personal and official records. They are being archived, copied, and shared unlimitedly. These images are not limited with our faces and bodies together with our lives, but they include everything we have and produce. Protecting the rights of a book is not as easy and simple like before now; as it could be when texts and images were written, drawn, and copied manually. The question above can still have a meaning for pictures close at portrait level, but I don't think it can be possible to limit the pictures taken with phone cameras.
This limitation problematic is also valid for text and image quotes. A text quote can be defined as "a small part or a summary of an original text used for a specific purpose giving reference to the source, and an image quote can be "a small part or a low resolution copy of an original image.
Using a product without making an agreement to define and protect mutual rights is neither ethic nor legal. However, in the era of communication at light speed, it is not so easy to create an efficient system to manage the giant data growing exponentially. Asking permission for taking a picture of a face in the crowd of daily life or using an image posted in the social communication system is not practically possible. In a world of monitoring networks and face recognition technics, our faces are inevitably public. It may be useful to define public and copyright protected data simply but effectively.
Public data: Informative data that can be used freely for non-commercial purposes.
Copyright protected data: Data created with investment in time and resources for a specific product.
For clarification, a picture at high resolution and a full text should be considered as informative public data which can be used freely giving reference to the source if they are accessible on Internet, but a product must not be made open to public and must not be used without a mutual agreement.
There is no need to ask "May I take your picture?" to everyone in the crowd of the street or request permission for quoting a text or an image information available in any media, as long as they are not used commercially. However in case of a commercial product, I don't think the famous word "borrowing" will be a good alternative for "stealing", since what had been taken will not be returned. It will be better to ask as "How much I have to pay for this to use in this way?" or directly as "May I steal your image or text?" if you don't intend to pay.
....
Selim read what he had written carefully. It was not a story. It was a reflection from the past. It was a trial for explaining what was going on in the new life styles that the odd era of communication at light speed had brought. People had not been trustable during the mechanical age. People were still not trustable in the electronic age. Mechanical doors and keys had been replaced with digital doors and keys. Data in the form of images, sounds, and texts were everywhere. People were swimming in an ocean of data. The new communication system would really bring a new era if they could all be enlightened with the power of knowledge. However, knowledge was too far away. It had been lost behind the curtains of vast and meaningless data, arbitrary data created for no reason, or for disinformation. In the mechanical age of the past, it was difficult and time consuming to reach and access knowledge. In the electronic age of communication at light speed, it was easy and fast to contact with giant data, but there was not sufficient time to reach, understand, develope and use knowledge. It was possible to steal images, sounds, texts, and any kind of information and knowledge materials. It was not possible though to extablish real and strong connections based on knowledge and wisdom. Bodies and minds owned everything, but they had nothing of their own. They were just receiving and transmitting the signals coming from infinite number of sources. They had lost their individualities, existences, and futures.
Selim's Tiny Stories
https://www.facebook.com/mehmetarat2000X/photos/a.2055672671213670/2057030411077896/?type=3&theater
