I have one issue with this. While I understand the concern photographers have, how can you steal something that still remains there? It's like stealing a car, but in reality just cloning it and the original car staying put. It's frequency and triangulation, nothing more.
So it's one thing to claim it as your own, in fact that's fraud, but copyright for the most part is a government invention in order to create intellectual property that's taxable to keep money flowing in. Outside of photography in the realm of medicine it's used as a state monopoly on patenting which stops individuals from innovating a medicine or treatment, or perhaps providing it for a cheaper price on the free market.
My point is, if you're doing a post on Steemit and you use someone else's graphic or gif of a steemit rocket shooting into the sky, should you be punished? Yes, respectfully you should point out that it was created by so and so, but have you hurt anybody? No, so it doesn't infringe the non-aggression principle and what you've stolen is still there, just cloned. So the person hasn't lost their property, someone else has just put a clone to use.
Hi Josh,
many of our infringing parties share your opinion.
However...
COPYTRACK stands for a fair and management of digital content so we hope to be able to make you a follower too!