As an entrepreneur I’m fascinated by how social media has helped create marketing for my services at no cost. Not only that but it has helped me reach out to people that doesn’t even live in the U.S. Even though, with marketing, it’s hard sometime to go on the right direction, it is worth to take the risk. Here is this article of “The 10 laws“ that can help you be successful while doing so. This media revolution has just began and it is going to bring new ideas, markets, and connections.
Marketing in social media is definitely an aspect that I would like to see grow and expand. This has opened a platform for a lot of people like me to get recognized around the world. However, every new idea brings negative aspects as well. Like for example, if I post some pictures of my work (makeup / dancing), on my Instagram page, somebody can easily access it and use it. Instagram or other platforms doesn’t really require you to give credits to the owner of the sources. You can easily screenshot an image and use it for anything you want, chances are the owner won’t even realized.
This is what happened to James Jollay, when a major international company stole one of her images. Marie Claire magazine, a very well known brand in the fashion/style industry has stolen and posted an image that belong to Jollay. Take a look at the article and what Jollay had to say.
I believe that is great that many other people enjoy social media and are able to share their ideas, work, and services but at the same time this information needs to be protected. For example, Facebook now has copyright laws that won’t let you upload any music videos without crediting the owner. They can be your own videos, but if it has a soundtrack on the background, you have to credit the owner or the creator of the source. Here is an article of why Facebook needed to do that. If I can create a law, I will follow Facebook steps and apply it to other social media platforms. Everyone’s work need to be protected not matter how “small” or “big” the information is. Platforms like Instagram need to come up with a set of rules that explain how to give credit to the original creators and videos, so it is not easy for other to steal ideas or images. If this is done, everyone would be free and encourage to share their ideas because they will feel their information is secured.
- Have you steal images from Instagram or other platforms to use them for your own benefit or purposes?
- How would you feel if a big corporation features your images/work on their account?
There are many people who post content online with the intent that big corporations will repost their work. However, all if not most people would like to receive credit or recognition for their work because this can lead to more brand recognition or a bigger audience. The problem does not lie with the corporation posting the content, it happens when the original artist does not receive credit. If a large corporation posted my content II would be grateful they thought my work was good enough to be seen on such a large platform.
I’ve never stolen any photos from any other website for personal gain, and even while working on Elite Daily, it was very important to credit the creator of the photograph, gif, video, and even other articles where we curated our own from. As a content creator, I would never feel any pleasure in stealing someone else’s work!
In some ways, if I posted it publicly and I agreed to the terms and conditions, it’s on me that they used my information. But that corporation will also get a lot of negative press for doing such a thing, so it’s a tradeoff.
I have seen some friends of mine steal images from Instagram and use them in creating traffic to their accounts. However, personally, I cherish originality and for case have never stolen any image from Instagram and purported to be mine. Nevertheless, there are some people who intentionally post their creative works or images on companies’ with the expectation that such contents will be posted somewhere and earn them credit, which often times is not the case.
I love when you put everyone’s work need to be protected not matter how “small” or “big” the information is. I agree that it is not matter of their scale of the work but their copyright that should be protected.
To respond your Question #2, to be honest, I steal the instagram’s image whenever I look at the food or restaurant that fascinates me or some amazing artwork by unknown. Yes, for the food I am doing excatly “free labor” but at the same time I do not put any comments or notification that I am actually taking screenshot of them. I know a snapchat has a function that alerts users if someone take a screenshot but in Instagram, they are not so the digital crime is prevalent. I even have seen people copy and past the exact same picture of one popular user and act like him/her. So,there should be more surveilience under Instagram.