Due to a friend’s tip, he discovered one of his photos as winning entry on Samsung Camera’s photo contest „Live the moment“ on Facebook. Horizontally flipped, slightly cropped and digitally altered with an instagram filter, a user submitted the photo as his own to the contest via his instagram profile – and won. Samsung Camera made a congratulatory shout out on Facebook, including the picture.
Stolen photo wins Samsung photo contest
If the shoe fits, wear it.
Samsung? Noo……can’t be true….they don’t steal, cheat or lie!!!
Wasn’t Samsung but I expected this sort of vitriol for this post. 🙂
Once again Samsung associates with plagiarists to promote their products. Coming on the heels of that horrid PR event where people equipped themselves with pointy sticks, I’m just not sure I’ll ever think of Samsung absent a sleazy context. I’d argue Samsung’s intellectual theft finds them right at home with other dishonest types. They made a grand bed for all the choads to sleep in.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, since Pointystick Man was the guest of honor at an LG event, not a Samsung one.
Simply put, the social media people at Samsung are not omniscient. They were not aware that this piece was stolen, and when they were made aware, they pulled it and disqualified the applicant. They should have publicly apologized to the owner of the photograph instead of sending an email, but there was little impropriety on Samsung’s part.
Now I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. Samsung did little to properly vet entries, they absolutely under-responded and should be held partially responsible.
Well, you can tell I’m serious because it was a matter-of-fact correction of your completely wrong assumption about Samsung, but sure, let’s move on.
As I already said, Samsung’s team here is not omniscient, and they ran their contest like so many others (and received the same egg on their faces). Maybe informal photography contests shouldn’t happen for this reason, as much as we’d like people out there to not be scumbags. I would agree with that; I think they’re banal and absolute nightmares to regulate for this reason. You need RAWs and EXIFs for everything, and considerable time should be taken to judge both quality and authenticity. Samsung should have done that, like all the others. But you make it sound like this is a scummy phenomenon unique to them, and that’s absurd. This whole thing shows a lack of foresight, not sleaziness.
Well said.
As someone who works at an agency that runs social media contests I can tell you the agency and client don’t want to spend the money for someone to put in the hours to do detective work to vet the entries. This is why the legal terms and conditions of the contest have the user agreeing that their submission is original work or something that the user has the express permission from the copyright holder to use the work being submitted.
Here is a direct lift of some legal that gets used for these promotions,”Entry should be original and created by the entrant. It is the entrant’s responsibility to obtain the approval and rights
to use any content that is not created by the entrant prior to submission of the Entry;”.
As The White Tiger said, “they pulled it and disqualified the applicant”. That is the best that they can do in this circumstance. Samsung did not steal the artists work and use it in marketing material without permissions. Samsung does not owe the copyright owner an apology for anything. Some random person stole the photographer’s work and passed it off as their own. If the copyright holder would like to sue the infringer for damages, all the power to to individual.
EXIF data can be spoofed. I have a GUI tool that allows me to rip out and or change EXIF data.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2132743/Hengki-Koentjoro.jpeg
That’s where the time aspect comes in. You should probably still do further research to ensure it’s an authentic and original work.
duh…of course it wasn’t! ;=P
vitriol? nooooooo…..I love what Sammy stands for!
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