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Old Dec 14, 2009, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Brightheart View Post
There apparently is a photo of my former T on the internet now when you do a search. (I didn't do a search, though. Someone else informed me.) I've been out of therapy for a year and I am doing really well. The one thing I've really longed for, though, is a photo of him...just to hold the memory. Would it be wrong? I respect him so very much, but the photo....

For classwork reasons I go to psychology today a lot and I get the magazine. psychology today does have copyrights to anything they put on their website and in their magazine. something to relate this to would be here there is a rule that says we cant copy anything. does that mean its ok for people to disregard that rule and copy things anyway just because they really want something someone has put on here (or at psychology today). and disregard copyrights?

if this situation was me I would let the t know there is a picture on the internet and in psychology today of him and ask if I could copy it. Sure he may not know you have copied it and have it but does that make it right, like here does it make it ok to copy things here as long as we don't ask anyone and don't tell the person we really wanted their material and photos?

When I first got here people accused me of being someone I wasn't and kept warning me about the rule not to copy anything. So I know this kind of thing has been dealt with here before and people here don't look lightly on anyones copyright infringement and privacy of photos and material. so I was surprised to read the posts saying copying his photo without permission was ok. personally I think the T deserves the same respect we give our psych central friends.

Call him and let him know you found a picture of him and since its on the internet you would like to have it. whats the worst he can say No and you throw it away. you have gone all this time without a picture of him and have survived so I believe you will continue to survive without a picture of him, you have your memories of your time together and you probably will never forget him and your time together.