Question

Techniques and technologies are frequently rolled out without adequate public consultation (e.g., street level view).” That, in particular, is a complaint that’s been circulating widely. Google’s online map service, Street View, has been accused of snapping photos too close to people’s private homes and of taking pictures of people on the street who don’t know they’re being watched.

a)How does the copying of images in this manner impact electronic commerce and internet use for artists, photographers, and other image creators?

b) Can search engines actually search images?

c) Does copying of images by search engines encourage individuals to save and copy those images for their own purposes? Does that make search engines responsible?

d) Does tagging of images on social media (e.g., Facebook) represent a privacy concern?

e) Besides photos, what other types of business models are represented in copyright complaints against search engines and how they display other organization’s content?

Answer 1

a. Copying of images in this manner leads to copyright violations and due to this practices the owner of the image (can be a image creator, photographer or an artist) loses his work.

b. No search engines cannot search images but can searches images that have a tag.

c. Yes, it can encourage individual to save and copy the images for their own puposes. However, this does not make search engines responsible because it is mentioned under a picture that "images are subject to copyright".

d. No tagging does represent a privacy concern because often it is done without the permission of the person being tagged.

e. designs, logos, colour comnbination, graphics are represented in copyright compalints against the search engines. They are displayed with a copyright message.

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