24 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I did a web search of my blog name a few days ago and discovered that several websites have been using my photo of the memorial service for murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. This photo has generated a lot of interest for some reason — a political science magazine in the Netherlands is publishing it in an upcoming issue.
I’m guessing now that there must be plenty of other websites using the photo that I don’t even know about. The sites I found (including a few in Russia) gave a photo credit to “Anglofille,” which is also my Flickr name and where they obviously downloaded the photo. That’s the only reason I found them. [I'm not sure why Flickr gives people the opportunity to download another person's photos, since this is just an invitation to steal them.] I’m not going to start writing to these websites and demanding that they remove my photo. I don’t feel like taking on such a project and to be honest, perhaps this is karma come back to get me. When I first started blogging I often used photos on my blog that I had no right to use — photos from newspapers, never Flickr photos. Even I wouldn’t have gone that far!
But I am quite annoyed that the Paris blog Parisist used my photo rather prominently in their post on Politkovskaya without my permission. They should know better than that. Linking to my Flickr page does not give them the right to use my copyrighted work without my permission. And given that I am a Paris blogger and that I have had them in my blogroll, I would have appreciated a bit more courtesy than that. Not cool.
Anglofille said @ 12:09 pm | blogging + technology |
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Ha, what do you expect? If you put something on the web and it looks good, of course, people is going to copy. But they should cite their sources.
Well, you could’ve copyrighted the image, but, still, without enforcement it’ll be quite useless. Enforcement usually means legal actions and that could be extremely costly.
