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.”
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
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)
Or had fun with Photoshop, if Anton Vowl’s suspicion is correct: http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2009/06/09/the-amazing-transparent-headrest/
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
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