Copyright is a fundamental element for the protection and safety of the work of Brazilian and world photographers, it is through him that one can specify the true author of a work and, of course, the security of claiming the unauthorized use of his work by others.
This type of resource is increasingly important in modern times, the ease of making beautiful works of a Brazilian or foreign photographer is very large, take it for you and use it for commercial purposes, so that you do not even speak. Just an internet, connection and creativity.
- That is exactly what a person from the state of Esperito Santo did when creating an online poster store.
- Since the works were.
- In fact.
- Written no less than by the mythical Sebastito Salgado.
Decorated worldwide, with thousands of years of experience in the profession, but not exempt from the misuse of his work. This, moreover, is clearly unaware of the basic principle of copyright.
Fortunately, in this case, justice was done with pleasure, as the head of the e-commerce industry could not continue to display, use or sell the material by court order issued by the 3rd Civil Court of Vitria.
As a result of this act, it was also determined that Salgado received compensation of R$50 thousand for moral damage caused by the direct owner of the digital business.
The work was on a website that promotes the possibility of creating online stores, in their defense argued that it was impossible to have full control over the products sold by the hosted companies, so the judge did not impose any sanction on them. them, just the immediate removal of ads.
At the time of sentencing, the judge even gave a following consideration.
It should be noted that the whistleblower spent years of his life on a single photographic expedition, culminating in a complete work, only to see his famous photos sold precariously and undervalued.