Reblogging automatically uploads ALL images in the post to your media library
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That’s it, basically. When you reblog a post (I reblogged one with three images in it) all of those images automatically go to your own media library, whether you realize it or not. This is potentially a copyright nightmare.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I agree with you – and I’m a lawyer (non-practising) by background. That being said, if the images stay in the media library and not get published, then there’s no potential copyright infringement. But that being said too, if media library has hundreds or even thousands of images, eventually the images in question could get posted through human error, and then the fun starts…
Can’t offer a solution … I’m trying to be self-disciplined and careful myself at all times…
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I didn’t know that. Just another reason to hate reblogging. I hope staff can fix that bug, or again, give users a real Opt Out choice.
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This is actually not a bug, but is intended behavior at this time. We do this intentionally to prevent unwanted changes to reblogged posts.
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But what’s to keep the reblogger from reposting those images from their media library on a different post on their site, without a link back or editing to remove any watermarks?
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Really! So if a blogger who is a photographer sets up a post with multiple images in it and wants only the teaser text and a small thumbnail image to appear in the reblog that’s not possible.
Clearly no blogger I know here is blogging for the purpose of creating a magazine for WordPress.com. That’s what the Reader has become and I hate it.
It’s my opinion that any reblogging “tool” that does not respect the wishes of the blogger with regard to treatment of their original content is one that needs to be given the deep six ASAP.
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@jackiedana
Sorry I forgot to add the @jackiedana to my comment here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reblogging-automatically-uploads-all-images-in-the-post-to-your-media-library?replies=8#post-1679065 -
Taking ALL the pictures seems to me to be way overkill – why not just take the first image? That keeps the Reblog intact but does not take the pictures not required for the Reblog.
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@jackiedana
Our content does not belong to WordPress.com and as I said above I don’t know any bloggers who are blogging for the purpose of created a WordPress.com magazine in the Reader.I want to know why it is that Staff have designed a tool that deprives us bloggers of control over:
the exact length of the text included in the reblog;
the image (if any) and size of it to be included in the reblog.Will you secure an answer to my question please?
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It also introduces random taxonomy to our media libraries. Some of us organize our images by title. God knows how the people we reblog from organize their images, and this will screw up the way media libraries are organized. As well, it is functionless, as when you reblog it doesn’t give you a choice of which image to actually POST. Additionally, it eats up media library space pointlessly, since until I posted this here nobody knew that it functioned this way, and so could not possibly have used those images except by accident.
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I would noticed immediately if an image, other than my own photos, showed up in my media library, and recognize it as one from a reblog. I feel sure that someone who reblogs routinely would also notice that their library is filling up with images and photos that they didn’t load themselves.
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Really? The only time I look at my media library is when I am uploading something and my eye happens to wander over it.
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I do too, and have something like 5,000 images, but I just don’t pay attention. The LAST thing I expected was to have images uploaded to my media library without my doing it.
Please explain to me, as someone pretty familiar with internet drama and hacking, exactly how this prevents against changes to reblogged items.
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I don’t look in the Media Library much at all – I use an offline editor and upload the Posts with images –
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If someone doesn’t know about the images sneaking into their media library this could be a huge problem.
I can see someone in the future going through their images to find one to illustrate a post. They might be sure to only use images with permission and reasonably expect that this is one of them. Imagine their surprise when they get into copyright trouble with the real owner.
Will it be the (legal) responsibility of WP then if all reasonable steps have been taken to remain within copyright only to have images that belongs to someone else forced into your files?
I haven’t been tempted to reblog yet, now I wouldn’t even consider it.
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I have done a few. Now I know I will have to manually delete those images when I reblog something in future. It definitely reduces my interest in reblogging.
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@tt
Our content does not belong to WordPress.com
but under the ToS we’ve still given WPcom the right to use it. Nothing about that has changed since reblogging was first introduced.
By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
I feel that jackiedana’s statement above somewhat contradicts the last part of the ToS clause about “reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website.” If I’ve reblogged someone’s post, should the original blogger delete their site or make their site Private, will my reblog show an error? Given what jackiedana stated above, it would seem not. The error will most likely show when a visitor clicks through the reblog to the original site.
Also, I find it ironic that there is such attention paid in the ToS to the fact that
By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;but another WPcom user can reblog that same content and no infringement is implied and no real recourse available since WordPress.com states they will not reply to DMCA requests on reblogs.
Reblogging is a can of worms and I feel should never have been made an official feature of WordPress.com even with all the “benefits” of having one’s material distributed, being notified when a WPcom user reblogs your content, giving attribution and search engine signals only to the original content creator, etc., etc., etc.
And, for what it’s worth, the standard reply to all these observations will be that if you don’t want people to reblog your content, you can make your site Private or host your own WordPress install. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.
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