Instead try opening web page with the pics you want then go to develop tab now disable styles and then simply drag and drop onto desktop or desktop folder simple and easy. Civilization would be a lot better off if the goverments stopped these handouts for signal waveforms.

The only electrical waveform that deserves to be paid for ever is the sound coming out of your electrical wall outlet because once you use it it takes fuel and removes it from existence.

Piracy makes a copy, stealing removes the original. These intellectual terrorists need to get on social security disability or get off ther anus and get a job.

Ironically, the worst offenders are Walt Disney who have attempted to kidnap our childhood fairy tales like Cinderella or real life stories like Pocahontas. You can contact a Flickr user via Flickr if you are a registered user yourself. Republishing a photo for a radio cover mix without permission does indeed infringe on copyright. I advocate downloading Flickr pictures for private storage without permission but not for republication.

I suggest you register at Flickr and contact the photographer directly. I have flick account i have numbers of pics of this sites. Not all people in or photographers are too greed to share their so called work of art. Try to communicate to them and ask a good one copy. I was better to ask permission rather than take their stuff without their knowledge. I am preaty sure they were appreciate a good talk. There is no heart stone in this world but lots of hard headed person.

Sorry, there are just not enough hours in the day to enter into negotiations to download an image I just personally want to keep around to look at now and again.

Of course if I did use such an image in a project, I would be sure to contact the photographer. Keep your EXIF data up to date photographers, so we can find you later. Dear Alec: I would like to download images of paintings by famous artists e. Mucha, Van Gough etc. My worry is how to get the best quality reproduction.

Would you have time to put me on the right track please. Thank you. You can use photographs of any of these paintings with no fees as a photograph is just a reproduction and the copyright expired lies with the original artist.

Just use Google images. Click Search Tools and then choose Large. Some will be bad blowups but most will be highres. You can always open the image using View Image and then just right click. Thank you Alec! Good article! I was thinking of creating like a small webapp that returns the URL to highest resolution available of a flickr picture. So basically you paste the URL of the flickr page of the photo, and my app will return links to the actual jpg file.

I could then extend this so that users could also paste links to albums and favorite lists and receive links to all the pictures in these collections. Do you know of any legal issues about this?

Am I allowed to link not even embed or anything, just a clear html link directly to a flickr image? There is legislation against software which is specifically designed to thwart copyright.

Read up on legal battles around DeCSS. Selling software is a different situation than just suggesting free workarounds using existing technology. I suppose by your logic it would be OK to break into a gallery, steal a painting off the wall, and display it in your home. After all, you would just be taking the painting for your personal enjoyment, not for commercial use or resale.

Maybe you would even return the painting to the gallery when you become bored by it — so gracious of you. Use them. I understand Walt Disney and now you Bob would like to privatise fairy tales and our common mythology. Over centuries your tendency towards hoarding will remain only as an unattractive footnote in the history of art. To take one example, music has not come to an end due to easy online sharing. Bands come and go, live concerts remain popular. The world spins on and, this time, in the right direction.

MoFos like you never go out of style — what kind of BS goes on in your mind. Your just a leeches of the lowest class. Thanks for this!! I agree with your comment. This is helpful and the world should be about sharing. Thanks for the many solutions posted here, finally I can download photos for the simple use of having them as a backgroundpicture on my computer.

Many have said it and I will say it again:. If you are a professional who has fear of sharing your pics with 7 billion people, then go and share them with those who will pay for your work and use it in commercials or whatever.

If you are not a pro, I will describe to you the feelings that you create: I go to flicker.. I find a beautiful amazing picture and it is protected, know what I do? The result is: Your picture gets not viewed and appreciated, you do not get a bookmark, nothing. When I see your name written under a picture, I do not even click on the thumbnail anymore.. Copyright: I do not use said pictures for my works, there are plenty of sites providing free pictures to use as one wants, like pixabay.

Copyright II: By the logic of how some understsand copyright, anything that is an inspiration should cost something. You too are allowed to take pictures of certain architecture that you did not design, nor build, yet it is allowed, you give said people honor by taking a good picture.

Imagine if you had no right to do so, or if you had to pay to make certain photographs of parks wich were cared for by people or whatever else were others are involved,? Anyone can claim copyright, but one has to use some sense of righteous logic. So, instead of being angry that others love your works so much that they want to have them, be happy, it is your photo, noone can claim or use it publicly without having to fear consequences.

This is a beautiful comment Ikki. Really these cretin photographers who think they own the world as they held a lens to it deserve the kick in the pants you just gave them. So again, thank you. I will be stealling his pictures of me ahahah. Hi Francisco. Thanks for pointing out the irony of photographers taking unauthorised pictures of people and then holding the subject to ransom.

There have been a number of prominent cases of celebrities being sued by paparazzi for reposting images of themselves to instagram: Gigi Hadid, Jennifer Lopez, Emily Ratajkowski are just a few of the big names. But you can put them in your permanent scrapbook for your heirs. Your grandchild could write a biography of you and include those photographs which you downloaded and carefully saved with your digital archive. I notice I used to be quite a bit feistier than I am now, looking back at my responses from It still amazes me that out of all the copyright militia who stopped by not one was able to post a link to original work, worth defending in such absolutist terms.

We believe that somehow we can nail down the world, whether with our images or our laws. The only element of life which is certain is its passing. We are here but a brief instant and then no more. Ansel Adams is no more. His copyright endures another 34 years. Enjoy life, enjoy creating, find a way to be paid for your work — or work in a bank like T.

Eliot, or in a library like Philip Larkin — and make beautiful things. The world — and life — is beyond our control. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can click here to Subscribe without commenting. Serve ads with your videos starting today! Firefox disable styles Web Developers Toolbar After that you can view, copy or save the Flickr protected image. Flickr right click options before disable styles in Safari Keep in mind that being able to save an image does not change the situation in terms of copyright.

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