Quote - Saving something to your computer for your eyes only is not a copyright infringement

 

This made me think of another way some damages may occur.
In most cases the reason something is free on the internet, or the reason people put an image in a gallery is self promotion.
If I put an image in a gallery, I may hope that by viewing the image they like, people notice other things that I do (or in more succesful cases, there may be advertisers hoping for exposure).
By saving an image locally, instead of having to come to my (or any particular website - like rendo) to see the image again and again, the person can circumvent all of that, and use the image personally.
Well, what good is it to me to give you a copy of an image (my property) if by doing that I limit you coming to my website and benefiting me in various ways?
There's a legal term for those kinds of damages, but I forget what it is, I'd have to look it up.

Rendo in part depends on people coming to their website and spending time here looking at the images... every emage one looks at, there's a new merchant banner etc... By allowing hundreds of images to be downloaded at once and viewed locally, the merchants whiom paid for the banners lose exposure. People listed in linkshare lose exposure. Advertizing is often sold by the volume of exposure it gets. 
What follows from that is that limiting the ability to have and view the image individually, on a hard drive DOES have a value (even if it's minor, it's still a value) therefore it should be up to the image owner whether they wishto give that value up or not.

I did not see in rendos gallery agreement a blurb that says you hereby cionsent to allow viewers to download and keep a single digital copy of your atwork for their personal viewing pleasure. (outside the themp internet files)

Anyway, to my knowledge, that's how it works in the US, and in my line of work I often get to 'worry' about those things.

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