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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helios" data-source="post: 1732291" data-attributes="member: 46553">It's a difficult article for me to understand, because of the very technical language.My basic understanding is that publishers can use images on the web without permission of the author, when they are unable to contact the author.Doesn't affect BF or birdguides as you can always email people, or PM them. They're the only two websites I post shots on anyway.In any case, for publications they'll need the whole file, won't they? Not the seriously reduced 150kB 900 by 600 files that I post here. How can they get hold of this without contacting the originator.At the end of the day, I havn't earned a penny from photography, and probably never will either. It's all a bit of fun for me - stress relief from the real work I do. From my position, these concerns just seem OTT.</blockquote>