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Tumblr Creatives Make June 1st 2015 “Protect the Creators” Day

Chris Gampat
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05/27/2015
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Last Updated on 09/08/2016 by Chris Gampat

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“What would happen if we stop posting anything until Tumblr decides to protect the creators’ rights by making it impossible to erase the credits”

This eerie quote seems to have started with photographer Claudio Judkevitch, who expressed his disappointment with Tumblr and the company’s lack of wanting to protect artists from copyright infringement and theft–which is rampant all across the platform. As a result, he’s calling on creatives to band together and change their profile photo on Tumblr to the Protect the Creators image to send a message to the company. So far, it seems to have caught on and is becoming more and more viral.

Tumblr was bought by Yahoo! years ago, who also own Flickr. With protection in place on Flickr and just how well regarded the Tumblr platform is for creatives, Yahoo! hasn’t implemented any sort of creative rights for Tumblr content being put out by creatives yet such as Creative Commons, All Rights Reserved, etc. Sure, you can see this on someone’s personal page, but most folks don’t go the pages and instead simply browse the dashboard.

Something like this may not get the attention of Tumblr’s execs as much as a lawsuit will, but at least it’s an attempt to get attention from the company about the issue.

PS: We’ve recently revamped our own Tumblr a bit to be a lot better visually.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.