About Vendors Not Using Their Own Photos
About Vendors Not Using Their Own Photos
The reason for this topic is that every year it is becoming more and more common. We want to make our customers and other gardeners aware of this growing problem. Also, you might not get what was advertised if they did not use their own pictures. So if they are not taking the time to take pictures and just taking them off the internet along with descriptions are the seed’s true. What are they doing when they are growing the plants also it makes me wonder. I do have to add about the bigger commercial seed companies. They do subcontract to breeder and gardeners. Where the breeders and gardeners take the pictures but supply the seeds along with the pictures of that variety to the bigger companies to sell. Those pictures and seeds are true because the breeder or grower made sure they were to be offered through a bigger commercial company. In this situation with the bigger companies, I wanted to make sure this was added, but this is not what the blog is about and some people would look at this situation as a gray area. Which I do not look at this as a gray area because the pictures are true to the seeds you the customer are purchasing, just there are more parties involved. But they have permission to use the photo along with the seeds that were purchased directly from the breeder/grower who grew the plants for seeds and took the photos.
Questions To Ask
Do you think it is alright to sell seeds on a site by using another person’s photos without their permission? I had to also ask my self why they would do this? What are they trying to hide? Is it fair to the person who originally took the photo? Is it fair to the consumer?
