I afraid you don't understand "Copyright Law" and that most of the people who's work you are using are making next to nothing and you all of a sudden out of no where are making $300 - $500 a post and keeping it, and the Artists are getting nothing in spite of years of training, practice and thousands of dollars of equipment.
You're giving them nothing and this is a commercial use that you are profiting from which under the copyright law would given each one of them $150,000 in statutory damages if they registered their copyright which I always do just for this reason.
You can sing and dance all you want about curation in your channel but that does not supersede U.S. Copyright Law.
Voting and resteeming are different than taking images off someone else's pages, creating a post and then keeping the payout. Crediting them does not give you permission, they must. This is why every Magazine has photographers and models sign releases. People are being sued for this on IG right as we speak.
If people want to give you permission to use their images and you make a post and they don't want a cut that's fine.
But you can't go around taking people's work without asking for their permission or you are violating copyright law and they are then subject to damages. The internet has not voided all laws as many ignorant people think.
But most copyright violations go on unnoticed until someone starts profiting from someone else work and they are getting nothing.
And for your information part of a curators job is to content the artist and obtain permission to include their work in the museum shows and artist often paid or get residencies. If the work as been sold then the contact the owner of the work. In the current situation with Banksy because he is Anonymous and Paints on other people property he forfeits his rights by not claiming them.
This is why artist struggle... People please visit and follow the Artists/Photogrphers and support them directly not someone profiting from their hard work and years of dedication to their art.
I am a lawyer. You should learn to read laws better.
Then you should know better. Please state the Statutes you think allows you to take other people copyrighted images and used them for a purpose of profit so I can show them to my Lawyer and the other photographers can do the same.
Laws aside you really think this is ethical... You do nothing but take peoples work and write some text which would doubtfully pass and an editorial (which still requires permission, but will allow exceptions for trademarks being in the images, etc) and they are making nothing and you $300 - $500 a post a day?
I'm working here and I don't have the time to teach you the obvious. But you should go to your Lawyer and let him explain it to you, he is paid for that.
People are being sued right now for taking other people's images and using them as content to monetize on their accounts. You're fronting and hiding behind a pseudo-name. You have no clue about the laws or what's going on right now.
The circuit courts will decided soon enough and establish legal precedence in this new internet age, but so far you can't do it.
Curation on the steemit platform is done with voting and you receive a payout from that. You can't steal other people content, you're a shit lawyer if you believe that and I know enough lawyers to know you're not one.
Thank you for your contribution to jurisprudence. Good luck to you.
Bollocks. You are violating copyright law in most countries of the world. Your being a lawyer is irrelevant.
Some photographers may like being mentioned in your trail, some may not, and some may like to get a cut of your profits, to each his own, and I'm fine with that.
Just don't say using other people's photos for profit without permission is perfectly OK. It isn't, and it is illegal in most countries.
First you should learn what illegal use is, if you want to talk about it. You should know what is explicite and implicite consent. Instead, you decide to attack. I'm sorry @ocrdu, your reaction is emotional and irrational.
It's Dutch law, which is very similar to most copyright law in other countries. Quite rational, in fact.
Can you cite it please?
Unauthorized use of the copyrighted work is also considered as an offense under the Copyright Act. It is an administrative offense for which a fine may be imposed on a legal or individual person.
You have to read full provisions, to know what is the definition of “unauthorized use” or you should not talk about that. This is not an “Unauthorized use”. Period.
Google is your friend, I'm not wont to do a lawyers work for him.
So you don't know the exact provision of law and telling a Lawyer that he is wrong and that he can't say he is a Lawyer? You should know better.
WOW...WOW....Why I did not see this text here ... interesting.... I want to see a final solution. I think that would be fair to you to share with us, then you can also continue to post.