(Newswire.net — April 23, 2013) Miami, FL — With online piracy at an all-time high, many companies and government agencies are looking to reduce the amount of copyrighted material that is posted illegally, by any means necessary, including lawsuits.
The breakdown of the numbers in online piracy is staggering: the statistics show that in 2010, 70% of users polled said that they find nothing wrong with online piracy. The same study showed that over 98% of all material shared on peer-to-peer networks is copyrighted material. The music industry alone claims more than $12.5 billion in lost revenues in 2010 due to file sharing.
The rampant piracy has driven a number of social and legal battles, including such bills as SOPA, CISPA, and the like, topics which are at the top of the newsfeeds these days.
The photography industry is undergoing similar painful discoveries about the volume of copyrighted photos being shared or posted without permission around the blogosphere. This has resulted in a number of situations where blog owners are being sued for illegal use of the copyrighted photos, and losing thousands of dollars in the process, because there is no defense in most cases other than just taking down the offending material and perhaps paying royalties, often back-dated to the time the image was published. This results in some very serious financial damages.
One company, Web Dimensions, Inc., has offered a software solution to help creative content writers and digital product creation specialists to obtain images and photographs which are offered free of financial obligation, and where, in many cases, no attribution is required, verifiable through a simple, one-click license research option.
“The problem,” said Ms. Abigail Orencia, Public Relations Manager for Web Dimensions, “is that a lot of people looking to establish a presence online don’t know where to look, or what to look for, when attempting to obtain interesting, royalty-free images and photographs to use in their blog posts, videos, e-books and powerpoint presentations. Basically any type of website, wordpress blog, pdf free report or youtube video usually requires some quality pictures, images and photographs, and what most people do is look on search engines, with questionable returns.”
That’s where Web Dimensions has stepped in, says Orencia. “With huge search engines like Google, it’s easy to get lost in all the results. Our software provides a targeted solution that delivers quality. The user can verifiably download royalty-free images every time. And the great thing is, they’re all from public sources! With our new software, creative writers and bloggers can instantly search through millions of royalty-free images by keyword, with the click of a button.”
She goes on to explain how the software allows the user to search, research, save to disc, upload to blog, post on Facebook, Twitter or WordPress, after being able to browse through hundreds of keyword-based royalty-free image libraries – from one application that runs on either a Windows or Macintosh desktop with Adobe Air.
“Our users have never been happier,” states Ms. Orencia unequivocally. The empirical data backs that up, as WSO Scout has nominated the software as Graphics WSO of the Year for 2012 and the votes show highly in favor of Web Dimensions software, winner to be announced on April 30th.
“This new software definitely takes the pressure off the product creation specialist or blog content creators because they can now easily and enjoyably browse through a multitude of free photos without the stress of having to worry about whether or not they could get sued for using it in their blog or e-book.”
She added that interested users may obtain a free trial version of the tool by visiting the company website where they may download royalty free image software.
For more information and to obtain free trial software, visit the Viral Image Curator Pro Official website at http://www.viralimagecurator.com
email: webdimensionsinc@gmail.com
Author: Hugh Hitchcock
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