Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Changes

Hey fellow bloggers and meager followers. I've made a recent change to my blog. If you'll notice, to the righthand side of the page (from a laptop or desktop web browser) there used to be a disclaimer informing you that all of the pictures on my blog are my property, do not steal, I have the copyright, yadda yadda.

But to be honest, this self imposed policy has been hampering the original reason I made the blog, for self-expression. Yes, I would very much like for people not to copy photos I've taken and use them as their own, that's rude. But let's be honest, google's little spiders run all over the Internet collecting whatever photos they want to. If I take a photo off of google's photos tab, there's no way I can be sure that the photo isn't copyrighted. It may have been used dozens of times all over the Internet.

The thoughts and ideas and words I write are the real reason I've made this blog, not to showcase my photography or to create a utopia where only things I've created exist.

So in conclusion, this policy is gone. I will be writing for self-expression, and I'll use whatever photos i want to use. I guess, the best way to express my new train of thought is this, if you don't want me to intentionally or accidentally plagiarize your photography, don't put it on the Internet in a way which makes it susceptible to right-clicking.