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XACKAMAS Do not steal this headline™ BY JAMES HARLEY •*ra o Verizon V 2:08 PM V 72X 01 < Tweet C\ 9^ > .. In a perfect world, people f l l i can Post whatever they w ant o n lin e, and not worry about it getting stolen or used elsewhere w it h o u t p e r m is s io n . Unfortunately, as everyone knows, this isn ’t a perfect world. Social m edia has becom e a b ig way fo r a lm o st everybody w ith m o d ern technology to connect w ith fam ily and friends, or share im portant, interesting or fu nny topics w ith their friends and follow ers. It has becom e so big that it is com m on to ask someone w hat their Sn ap ch at or In sta g ra m usernam e is, rather than asking for a phone number. However, flaws exist. W hen someone posts som ething that is w ell-liked, people may share it to the point that the post becomes viral, which is w hen thousands or more can see it. O n Tw itter, if a viral tw eet is going around, num erous accounts out there intentionally seek these posts and repost them to their account using the almost too useful “ copy and paste” tool. These people don’t credit the original creator and es$entially claim it as their own. They som etim es even take the tim e to crop out an artist’ s name from th e corner of a picture, and never credit them in the picture. The type o f content stolen can vary. Most often it is words or funny phrases that are copied and pasted, then shared. In other situations, photos are stolen, m od ified , and som etim es have added content that can be misleading or even incorrect. I Most of the time the motive has to do W H H jH PicPedant @PScP6daw ,@EarthPixHD No acknowledgment of photographer @ivanslosar who spent days and nights in the Sahara to get this photo PM w ± James Harley found an example of questionable attribution while Scrolling through his Twitter feed. w ith getting hits, more followers and/or even for profit. “ Some social media accounts use other people’ s content for m oney,” said Janne A h lb erg, a security p rofessional from Finland, "who runs the Twitter account @ hoaxeye and a blog th at is used for identifying fake orhoax pictures. “ These could be described as ‘ picture spam acco u nts’ . The business is o ften very simple: more followers, more m oney via online ad s,” said Ahlberg in an em ail, e In many cases, the accounts that steal content have hundreds o f thousands of followers, which is usually more than the person who created the content. Followers o f these accounts, who -just follow to see fu n n y content, share and retw eet, not knowing that the content is stolen. A c c o r d in g to C C C lib ra ria n Ja n e L ittle fie ld , w ho h as k n o w led ge o f cop y righ t law s, people w ith Tw itter accounts technically should not do this. “ As soon as you create som ething, it’s copyrighted, it’ s a constitutional righ t,” Littlefield said. “ W hen you post online, you’re publishing it and you still have that copyright protection, but nobody thinks about that when they go online and grab som ething and use it .” But m any people still get away with it every day. “ Putting a picture in a PowerPoint slide, you’re allowed to do that because it’ s an educational setting,” she said. “ In the real world, a Twitter for profit setting couldn’t do that under copyright law. But this is broken every day m illions of times, so no one is going to go after anybody for it. ” We are far from ending the problem, but there are ways that artists can stop people who have stolen and used their content. “ They can issue a cease and desist letter, and if the person doesn’t take it down then they can go after them law fully,” Littlefield said. “ However, that doesn’ t m ean the im age is going to go o ff the in tern et if it is retw eeted m illio n s of tim es.” Ahlberg addressed how content stealing will likely never stop online. “ I don’t think people will stop stealing photos or other content especially when money is involved,” Ahlberg said. “ In the case of photos, reverse image search is a good tool to look out for stolen content,” Ahlberg said. “ Other people can try to raise awareness in various ways. One éfficient way is to stop following the professional content thieves.” f. The next tim e y o u ’ re on Twitter or anywhere on social media, watch out for w hat you report o f retweet. Reposting art you see is n ’ t w rong, but"you could be sharin g a picture th a t was stolen originally, and in the end, the original creator may not get anything for all the hard work he did to create it. ON THE COVER: Timberline got 9 inches of snow between Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 28-29. Photo by Victoria Tinker and design by Austin Boltz. 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