Life, Interrupted

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Bugging out: How rampant online piracy squashed one insect photographer

Most copyright holders are individuals; most infringers are businesses. Things are broken.

by Alex Wild Sept 24 2014, 8:00pm CST

Here is a true story about how copyright infringement costs my small photography business thousands of dollars every year.

Or, maybe it isn’t. It could also be a true story of how copyright infringement earns me thousands of dollars every year. I can’t be sure. Either way, this is definitely the story of how copyright infringement takes up more of my time than I wish to devote to it. Copyright infringement drains my productivity to the point where I create hundreds fewer images each year. And it's why, in part, I am leaving professional photography for an academic position less prone to the frustrations of a floundering copyright system.