Digg, if you will, the pictures
Posted: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:41 PM by Will Femia
Here's one for Clicked Court: A photographer spotted her photo as part of a video montage in a very popular viral video.
Her reaction was anger that the photo was stolen for the work without her permission. As I recall, she ended up pulling all of her photos from Flickr as a result. I agree that it sucks to have a photo used without permission or even credit, but my attitude is basically waddayagonnado? The photographer's answer in this case was not just to pull her photos off Flickr but to send cease and desist letters to the video sites hosting that viral video. There does seem to be a general understanding in online culture than when you catch someone using your stuff without permission you're allowed to smother what they're doing with legal notices (or, as we've seen, the occasional prank). Michael Arrington
sets the matter straight, pointing out that this video's use of the photo constitutes fair use. And copyright doesn't mean every little thing needs explicit permission.
By the way, I've got a personal example of a similar situation. See the photo in the title graphic under the map
on this post? That's mine. I saw it by accident because it got a lot of traction on one of the big social sites. I did nothing.
What would you have done?
Many
blogs and
sites were
celebrating Chris Dodd last night. You may recall that he's been leading the charge to block legislation that would grant telecoms immunity from for helping the government spy on Americans. Last night he championed a filibuster and won the battle.
Speaking of politics blogs, I read
this round up of conservative bloggers who are not keen on the idea of Mike Huckabee as the Republican candidate. I'd guess that a lot of the passionate Ron Paul supporters we see online are "Ron Paul or nothing" voters. On the liberal side I know there are a lot of anti-war voters who won't vote for Hillary. How soon before the Web helps break the partisan duopoly that pulls the strings on American politics?
Pitchfork has published its
Top 100 Songs of 2007 list. Markedly different from the Rolling Stone list.
Not exactly a "cancer cured" headline of the day but still an interesting piece on the search for a cure: "Each day, Sam Hutchison swallows 44 pills, most of which weren't prescribed by his physician. They were chosen by Sam's father, who devised the treatment cocktail -- and tests many of the medicines on himself -- in
a desperate effort to save his seven-year-old son."
Nanosolar Ships First Panels -This is a press release but unless I've been hitting the Kool Aid too hard it's exciting news. Low cost mass production of solar panels is what we've been waiting for to bring solar energy into the mainstream.
Elsewhere green...
Congress Likely to Pass Incandescent Bulb Ban
