Andy Piper: Chasing the Daily Mail for Flickr attribution
June 25th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Legal, Online Journalism
Maybe not an unlikely crime, but its one that could be increasingly common as more newspapers turn to Flickr for content.
Andy Piper writes on his blog:
“The Daily Mail posted a story on their website about my friend Andy Stanford-Clark, and used a crop from one of my photos to illustrate it. As it happens, I would have been perfectly happy for them to use it (and even to crop it) if they’d asked for permission. At the time I post this, they are not following the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence…”
“….it’s a national newspaper displaying what would appear to be significant ignorance about the morality of using user-created content.”
Tags: andy piper, Andy Stanford-Clark, creative commons, Daily Mail, Flickr, Stanford, The Daily Mail
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June 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am
My favourite will always be “1: Type ‘fat dog’ into Flickr. 2: Output the search results as an ‘article’. 3: Profit!”
http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/05/daily_mail_fat_dog.php
June 25th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
It could be worse, they could have rotated it 180 degrees and claimed it’s a different photo:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195215/Stunning-pictures-hole-clouds-astronauts-witness-volcano-eruption-International-Space-Station.html
(ok, at least those photos have an intact NASA copyright)
June 25th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Or had fun with Photoshop, if Anton Vowl’s suspicion is correct: http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2009/06/09/the-amazing-transparent-headrest/
December 11th, 2009 at 10:05 am
More stealing this morning from the Daily Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234050/Creasing-Banking-funny-photo-moneyfacing-craze-sweeping-web.html
December 11th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
[...] This is not the first time the Mail’s use of online images has been challenged, but issues of copyright aside, Kevin Anderson suggests that there is a bigger opportunity being missed by newspapers at large (scroll down to the comments): “[T]his is another example of the news industry missing an opportunity to build community around what they do. When I use Creative Commons photos from sites like Flickr, firstly, I honour the terms of the licence. Secondly, I drop the Flickr user a note letting them know that I’ve used a photo on our site. It’s not only a way to use nice photos, but it’s also a way to build goodwill to what we’re doing and do a little soft touch promotion of our coverage. It takes a minutes out of my day to create that email, but instead of a backlash, I often get a thank you. They let their friends know that the Guardian has used their picture. It’s brilliant for everyone. Their are benefits to being good neighbours online, rather than viewing the internet as a vast repository of free content.” [...]