Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They clearly say that they make every effort to obtain permission, but that in exceptional circumstances such as the Norway bombing or the Arab uprisings they may, after careful consideration, use a picture and try to identify the author afterwards. I have no problem with that, and I do not consider it stealing. It's not like they went to someone's website to rip off the image. The kind of pictures we are talking about have a very short shelf life. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Aug 17, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >