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05/16/2012 11:29:43 AM · #1 |
Link below is to a great article/video about a blogger who had his work published without recognition or permission in a local paper.
What did he do next?
He got paid.
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05/16/2012 12:09:33 PM · #2 |
I checked that out, and it's quite interesting. Though it's not a good way to make friends, and he probably will not be getting his photos published in that paper again, the blogger was within his rights to take the action that he did. I wonder if it would have turned out completely differently had the camera not been rolling?
I also notice that a copy/photo of the newspaper article is in the site linked to. I wonder if that violates the copyright rights of the newspaper? I sort of doubt that permission for that inclusion was granted by the newspaper.
I have photos published by area papers regularly, and sometimes one or two will be published without a by-line, but I just let it go. The local newspapers are a door to wider recognition and larger things for photographers, so it would not be in my interest to not play nice. It helps to be on good terms with their people, and those people move around. You never know where they will be someday, and what good connections you could lose by not being nice to them now.
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05/16/2012 12:23:36 PM · #3 |
| It's a tough situation. The internet makes everything immediate and so incredibly accessible. This however, does not mean it is free for the taking. The whole mindset of "well if you don't want someone to steal it, don't post it" is ludicrous. Someone had to work to create whatever is being plagiarized. At the very least, attribution should be given to the author of the work. The writer was very courteous and stuck with the issue, and never wavered from it. The newspaper should have acknowledged its oversight immediately, and offered to reprint the column with an attribution. Or just shut up and written the check. |
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05/16/2012 01:56:34 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
I checked that out, and it's quite interesting. Though it's not a good way to make friends, and he probably will not be getting his photos published in that paper again, the blogger was within his rights to take the action that he did. I wonder if it would have turned out completely differently had the camera not been rolling?
I also notice that a copy/photo of the newspaper article is in the site linked to. I wonder if that violates the copyright rights of the newspaper? I sort of doubt that permission for that inclusion was granted by the newspaper.
I have photos published by area papers regularly, and sometimes one or two will be published without a by-line, but I just let it go. The local newspapers are a door to wider recognition and larger things for photographers, so it would not be in my interest to not play nice. It helps to be on good terms with their people, and those people move around. You never know where they will be someday, and what good connections you could lose by not being nice to them now. |
Publishing someone else's work as your own isn't a good way to make friends either.
My invoice would have been for more than $500.
As to inclusion of the newspaper's article, it's part of the story much the same way a photograph of a criminal is used to report the story. There's no requirement to get the criminal's consent.
Message edited by author 2012-05-16 14:22:57. |
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05/16/2012 02:23:03 PM · #5 |
its really interesting how the guy paid right up.
I'd bet he wont be plagiarizing anyone else's work anytime soon. |
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05/16/2012 06:53:18 PM · #6 |
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