Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]==On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:41 AM, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Mon, 3/15/10, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > >> However...having cancer and being famous is no excuse for >> stealing Kyle's picture. > > > Well, you can make an argument that since the picture IS on wikimedia > under a Creative Commons Attribution license, and Ebert DID attribute text > and picture specifically to Wikipedia with a linkback, he didn't exactly > steal the picture. ?Okay, maybe it would have been better to have > attributed the pic to Kyle personally, but it IS sourced, it's not a "cut > and paste from behind a firewall" job, and the wiki page is a bit vague > about what the expected attribution is. > > In any case I'm thinking the only person with standing to raise the issue > didn't seem upset when he mentioned the usage.... > > R. Clayton McKee > PhotoJournalist > from somewhere just south of somewhere else... > That's what I think, too. --Bob