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Topic: Flying Academy Stealing Photos
Username: eskillawl
Posted 2012-11-09 10:49:46 and read 2758 times.

Hello and happy Friday. So, I'm "following" this site called Flying Academy on Facebook. FA is a pilot-school in Chezh Republic, Europe. I saw that they had posted a photo of a Hainan Airlines A346 B-6508. I remember that I saw that photo earlier today on the most viewed page here on Airliners. So, I took a look at their other photos and saw that the are stealing photos almost every day, without posting any information about the photograher, Airliners.net etc.

Etc,

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Haina...d=d41b2f304b41009c904d8e86c777bc7e -
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...392903.285999537854&type=1&theater

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Turki...d=dd82e353c02483938da2fbe88e8a518e -
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...392903.285999537854&type=1&theater

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Lion-...d=19ee08f7160e3cd2f917dad178bc6882 -
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...392903.285999537854&type=1&theater

So, I commented one of their photos, but I havn't contacted the photographers. Do they have any right at all to steal photos like this and then post it on their Facebook-page?

Eskil.

Topic: RE: Flying Academy Stealing Photos
Username: jpmagero
Posted 2012-11-09 12:58:37 and read 2758 times.

Quoting eskillawl (Thread starter):
Do they have any right at all to steal photos like this and then post it on their Facebook-page?

In a word, no. I'm sure they could post a link to the photos, but not the photos themselves without permission (even if they left the copyright, which they are stripping).

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