Hallo zusammen, nur eine Vorwarnung an die Community.
Fotos, die ich hier geteilt habe, wurden kürzlich von einem Journalisten in zwei Online-Nachrichtenartikeln (MSN und Yahoo) wiederverwendet, ohne mich zu kontaktieren, um Erlaubnis zu bitten oder Quellenangabe zu machen.
Ich wollte dies kennzeichnen, falls andere überprüfen möchten, ob ihnen das Gleiche passiert ist, und wenn ja, entscheiden möchten, ob ihre Bilder entfernt werden sollen.
Mein ursprünglicher Beitrag: https://www.reddit.com/r/GardeningUK/comments/1p8fc0r/gravel_pit_to_green_space_learning_to_garden_as_i/
Mods – wenn dies nicht angemessen ist, können Sie es gerne entfernen.
Von: UntidyLives
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I don’t think Alexis McDonnell can call themself a journalist. Thief is more appropriate.
Have you successfully had the article removed?
I hope you have demanded payment.
Journalist here. What outcome do you want? If you want the photos removed, contact them and say so. If you want payment for use of the photos, contact them and say so. If you don’t get a resolution from either of those then there are avenues to escalate things if you still feel strongly.
Nice garden, by the way. Top work.
Reddit terms of use permit them to use your images in this way. In accepting the terms of use, you grant Reddit a wide-ranging, perpetual, royalty free license that allows them to license images to third parties without compensating you.
Almost certainly AI slop article.
Reddit is also used to train LLMs.
Probably best you read the Reddit T&Cs…
You posted the images on a public forum. If they’re private photos that you didn’t want shared, why post them?
You still own the photos, i.e. the copyright, but you’ve given Reddit permission to do what they want with them. This is what you agreed to when signing up here.
I posted a pic of my back garden in a different sub. It was critical of my selfish neighbours.
Someone posted it on tik tok and it got 100K reactions. Another (friendly) neighbour recognised my garden and let me know they’d seen it.
I had to delete the post and create this new reddit account.
I posted my small garden transformation last year and it also ended up as a Yahoo News story, which, like you, I was pretty surprised about. I deleted the post and now sadly won’t make similar posts in the future.
I just searched “homeowner shares stunning before-and-after photos of property transformation” to find this article. What I found was an armful of near identical headlines, the articles follow the same pattern, pics ripped from tiktok/reddit some standard text and a couple of photos.
Fucking gross.
When you post photos to a platform, they are no longer your photos. Nothing’s free these days (sadly!)
How scummy they did this.
I remember your original post and thought your garden was so lovely so I checked your profile just now to see if you’d made any more posts about it, only to find your profile is now private ☹️. I completely understand why, and I would 100% have done exactly the same, but what a loss for everyone. Someone else commented they wouldn’t share pictures now either. Seeing the changes in a tree/garden/patio over time is so nice, and now people won’t be doing that.
I also look on the decor/interiors type subs, and sometimes look at a profile in case you get the evolution of a home or room over the years.
Sometimes people even say ‘look on my profile for how it looked last year’.
Reddit are making their site lose a lot by allowing this ☹️.
so many websites now just steal their content its crazy
The modern way, is piracy.
ask for it to be removed or credited correctly
If you read the Reddit Public Content Policy,
https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525844-Public-Content-Policy
It states that once you have posted content on Reddit, it’s now public information and can be re-used without a license
Someone did that with my photos in the Metro! Lazy wannabe journalists
If you post it on the internet, it’s available for anyone to use