Over on Lawrence Lessig's blog, there's an interesting account of a traditional media mag — Autoweek — completely failing to “get it” in the internet age. Why? They grabbed a photo from the internet and used it in the mag, without paying the author. And they got found out.
Ooops.
Really, any editor stupid enough to think that they can just grab internet images and use them in the mag without any form of contact with the photographer, as appears to be the case here, is playing with fire. I hope Autoweek pays up, or gets burnt.
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September 19, 2006 10:44 PM | Reply
I could understand bloggers grabbing photos from the net but not an editor of a mag like that.
On a similar theme...
I've a neighbour who's distinctive front door was photographed and used on the front cover of a local mag without her permission. She found out about it and an apology and payment was sent to her.
September 20, 2006 6:54 PM | Reply
Hey, I "know" that guy! He's been one of my Flickr contacts for aaaaages.
September 21, 2006 9:08 AM | Reply
Hey, wow, talk about seven degrees of seperation and all that…