Is taking screen grabs of race photos stealing?

Yes.

Depends on your compensation arrangement. At my job, yes, it would be theft.

Yes and yes. Unless it has marathonfoto watermarks in which case you're just advertising that you're poor.

No and no.

No, I consider it fair trade for the 486 unsolicited e-mails they will send me trying to sell their overpriced photos.

I own myself.

I own my labor.

Taxes are theft of my labor.

~27% of my labor is stolen.

Forced labor is also known as...

Slavery.

Kdjdic8c8vuhdu wrote:

I take screen grabs of all my photos from marathonfoto and others. Most people I know do this too. Is it theft?

Bonus Question: is leaving 30 minutes early from work theft from your employer?

Dude, a low resolution photo of you doing a boring activity, that has a watermark saying "racephoto" or something, isn't of much value. Screenshot away.

Let's say that your livelihood is a service, such as photography. You offer a preview/sample of your work to a potential customer, and that customer makes a copy of it instead of buying your product. Would you feel robbed?

You employ someone to run your shop. They close it a half hour early, without your knowledge, and you pay them for the full day. How would you feel about that?

What you should ask yourself; "Is the purchase or theft of pictures of myself evidence of narcicism, and should I spend my time or resources on such navel gazing activities."

Kdjdic8c8vuhdu wrote:

I take screen grabs of all my photos from marathonfoto and others. Most people I know do this too. Is it theft?

Bonus Question: is leaving 30 minutes early from work theft from your employer?

Mentioning screen grabbing on a plebeian daily forum is dishonorable. That's very n00bHat. :-p. ("__").

What if I use them on my blog?

no. terrible resolution and watermark, so the image is worthlessyou'll look like a moron if you ever try to post or print one of those grainy screen shots anywhereyou knew this answer before you asked the questions though.get a life

Kdjdic8c8vuhdu wrote:

I take screen grabs of all my photos from marathonfoto and others. Most people I know do this too. Is it theft?

Bonus Question: is leaving 30 minutes early from work theft from your employer?

It's not stealing because it is posted publicly. They would hold the copy right of course, so you couldn't exactly "make money" from your downloaded preview picture.

As for work, well I'm salary and there are unspoken agreements that sometimes you leave early, sometimes you work late. If the work is done then all is good.

Derek Murphy posts water marked photos on his website all the time so it must be ethically ok to take and post pictures of other people for which you have not paid for shaming and Derek's monetary gain. Everyone knows that Derek is morally superior to the rest of us. He is my compass.

Why would you leave your job 1/2 hour early and risk getting fired?

You must be a young, thinks he knows it all pansy punk.

Get back to work, you spineless puke.

I didn't ask those schmucks to take a bunch of pictures of me just like I didn't ask the bum to wash my car window. Would I be arrested for stealing for not giving him any money after he was done? I don't think so.

If you want to be instagram famous , drop $dimes on them picks man know enough.

If your finishing speed is good but your instagram flex weak, being cheap on them pics ain't stylish.

David Carradine is dead and not getting any better. Does this answer your question Grasshopper?

Tightwad wrote:

Let's say that your livelihood is a service, such as photography. You offer a preview/sample of your work to a potential customer, and that customer makes a copy of it instead of buying your product. Would you feel robbed?

He didn't ask how they would feel, he asked if it would be illegal. There's already a copy on your computer the second you view it online. Disconnect your internet and view your cache if you want to see. With private apps like snapchat it is considered illegal as the content is intended to be viewed directly through the app itself, and you agree to abide by that in the terms and agreements. The internet is not an owned entity though and people who post photos have no authority over how they are viewed, otherwise it would be illegal to use non-browser resources to surf the web.

No.

As long as its posted publicly online and you are not using photo for commercial purposes.

Photo service is offering you the poor resolution online photo for free trying to entice people to enter into a contract with them for additional photos.

I am not sure why races still use these archaic old school photogs who try to sell you printed race photos. Races should just pay some kid $100 to take a bunch of digital photos and then post them online for people to sort through and download for free. That would add real value to the race at minimal expense.

Leaving work 30 min early is stealing from your employer, if you are under contract to be paid for the 30 minutes.