Good question Bruno. I think my answer is going to get me in trouble. I would love to hear what others think:
When you upload stock footage to a stock site a customer can only look at a low-resolution version of it. Or download a watermarked low res version. So no one is going to steal it. If they purchase it the stock site doesn’t tell you who bought it. So if it ends up on someone’s video you really don’t know if they bought it or not. (Unless you have never sold that clip yet) Also, the odds of seeing the video with your stock footage on it is somewhat impossible considering how many videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
As for me, I created a video of my travels like this one: Italy Video and then sold clips in that video as stock footage. Any jerk could easily rip my video and steal clips from this video. And if I was lucky enough to find the video where they had stolen clips the big question would be, what can I do about it? Is it worth hiring a lawyer? I would hope most people would remove it if you ask but I have never had this situation. Or I could send them a bill for the cost of the stock footage.
Once again, I would love to hear others opinions and thoughts on this.
I think you might find these article helpful:
https://library.creativecow.net/article.php?author_folder=lindeboom_ron&article_folder=basics_of_copyrights_pt1&page=1
https://library.creativecow.net/article.php?author_folder=lindeboom_ron&article_folder=copyrights_pt2_fair-use&page=1
Stephen Smith
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