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Subject: [Leica] roger ebert just posted one of my photos on his blog
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:31:52 -0500
References: <EB6A7B66-D72D-4237-A00E-6FA7E33A60DD@frozenlight.eu> <524385.85796.qm@web52807.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

==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


In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] roger ebert just posted one of my photos on his blog)
Message from rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] roger ebert just posted one of my photos on his blog)