Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Everybody's work is copyrighted the minute they press the shutter, whether they are professional or not. Stealing is stealing. If somebody wants to give BBC the right to use their photos, that's fine, but BBC should ask first. If BBC copied paragraphs from somebody's blog and used them without credit, it would be the same thing. Tina On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > I don't know, Tina, I think the approach outlined by the BBC is fairly > reasonable in the circumstances, and so do many of the commenters (e.g. > comments 2 and 5). We are not talking about pro photographers having their > work ripped off here. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain-- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com