Friday, March 26, 2010

Blogging in Austria and the difficulties with that...

I'm sorry that I wasn't blogging recently but I tried to figure out how to keep this blog interesting. So over the last few weeks I was busy with research about legal things concerning blogging in the internet. I would love to post everything I stumble upon that seems interesting to me. This includes of course photos that are featured online or in print media. 
The problem with legal situation in Austria is that, unlike the United States f.e., I'm not allowed to publish them if I don't own the rights. Not even if my intention isn't to make money with it and even if it is primarily a compliment to the photographer or interior designer. If I do publish photos I don't own the rights to I have to expect that some day a busy lawyer will find my blog and send me a letter with an invoice to pay the publishing rights or even considering a lawsuit.
So I have to find another way in keeping you informed about my finds. Of course I'm gonna continue posting photos but I have to stick with photos I shoot by myself. So I will start carrying my camera around as much as I can and try to capture design highlights on my way through life.
I will also start another category on this blog, called "work in progress", that will keep you posted about my own work on projects. Im quite busy at the moment with the design of two apartments and I'm gonna post the first photos of them soon. So keep on stopping by and don't hesitate to leave comments to let me know what you're thinking.