More photo Stealing

[EWek11]

Another case of photo-stealing on a pretty large scale:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/24/tech/main3290986.shtml?source=mostpop_story

Some interesting angles here, I think.

[Chris71]

People who post photos on Flickr are asked how they want to license their attribution. The person who posted the photo of Chang chose a sharing license from Creative Commons that allows others to reuse work such as photos without violating copyright laws, if they credit the photographer and say where the photo was taken.

The commercial use was discovered when Brenton Cleeland, a photographer in Australia, noticed a bus stop ad in Adelaide featuring Chang, with a line on the bottom of the ad saying the image had been taken from flickr.com/photos/chewywong.

Would this be considered giving the photographer credit?

[Quad]

People who post photos on Flickr are asked how they want to license their attribution. The person who posted the photo of Chang chose a sharing license from Creative Commons that allows others to reuse work such as photos without violating copyright laws, if they credit the photographer and say where the photo was taken.

The commercial use was discovered when Brenton Cleeland, a photographer in Australia, noticed a bus stop ad in Adelaide featuring Chang, with a line on the bottom of the ad saying the image had been taken from flickr.com/photos/chewywong.

Would this be considered giving the photographer credit?

If that is true then only the photographer should be libel unless there was a model release. Of course that person may not be as worth suing as Virgin.

[amonline]

Yea, I'd just like to know if the photog had a model release... especially if she's a minor. ;)

[Mediation]

omg! so someone can take my photos and use them put my name on it and not even tell me?

[Primm]

An American family has sued Australia's Virgin Mobile phone company, claiming it caused their teenage daughter grief and humiliation...

Check out the pic in the story of Alison posing next to the bus stop.

If she is claiming "grief and humiliation" maybe she shouldn't have flown halfway round the world, and dressed in the same outfit, to have a photo of herself taken (smiling, BTW) next to the shot over which she is taking legal action.

Can we say "frivolous"?

And this:

The lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in state district court in Dallas, names Virgin Mobile USA LLC, its Australian counterpart, and Creative Commons Corp., a Massachusetts nonprofit that licenses sharing of Flickr photos, as defendants.

That's because they know that if they sued Virgin Au in an Australian court, it'd be thrown out as frivolous. That's if the case even made it into the courtroom.

[amonline]

Check out the pic in the story of Alison posing next to the bus stop.

If she is claiming "grief and humiliation" maybe she shouldn't have flown halfway round the world, and dressed in the same outfit, to have a photo of herself taken (smiling, BTW) next to the shot over which she is taking legal action.

Can we say "frivolous"?

She didn't... that's a reprint from Flickr with the ad superimposed. ;)

[Primm]

Woops! Didn't look very closely, did I? It's kind of obvious...