Quote - > Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Again, I ask, how does it harm you when or if someone saves an image you posted in a public gallery?

 

So, if I like your artwork, you don't mind if I download it and print myself some posters, right?
I mean it's much cheaper and convenient then contacting you and asking you for permission and paying you for the trouble, and also, this way I avoid you realizing that if people really like them, you might be able to sell them.
Then I can tell 100 of my friends they can do the same - beacause of course, it is on your online gallery afterall. Why bother you with potentially selling prints of your work.
I mean, no harm done, since you're not selling them right now, and whom in their right mind would put an image of what they want to resell online anyway.

Anyway, above is an illustration of using your logic. As you can see, there CAN be harm done. Immediate or future.

Again, that's talking "redistribution", not just simply right clicking and saving to your hard drive to view it at your liesure. Doing absolutely nothing to the image other than viewing it.

 

Are you saying I print an image for my viewing pleasure, that's redistribution, but if it's kept on a hard drive, it's not redistribution?
I thought for redistribution, it has to change hands.
If I tell people where online an image can be found for download, I'm not redistributing it.

When you said "print posters", I assumed you were talking about posters for sale or to give away, not just to put into a binder or hang on your wall for you to look at.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi