[Leica] magazine uses photos gets belligerent when photog asks to be paid

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

There is a popular perception that web content is for the taking.
I've had images used illegally and when I removed them from the place
that the person who stole them was accessing them they tried to take
legal action against me.  My guess is that if they actually did go to
a lawyer the result was a very brief "you should drop this".

Marty

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu> 
wrote:
> Crazy story in the "it's a photo, it must be free" vein from a pro 
> photographer running into (or being run over by) a magazine. I can 
> understand some kid reposting a photo on his blog, but not a national 
> magazine.
>
> http://messerveyphoto.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/me-vs-corporate-america/
>
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