Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/14

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Subject: [Leica] roger ebert just posted one of my photos on his blog
From: rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:41:06 -0700 (PDT)
 
--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> However...having cancer and being famous is no excuse for
> stealing Kyle's picture.


Well, you can make an argument that since the picture IS on wikimedia under 
a Creative Commons Attribution license, and Ebert DID attribute text and 
picture specifically to Wikipedia with a linkback, he didn't exactly steal 
the picture.  Okay, maybe it would have been better to have attributed the 
pic to Kyle personally, but it IS sourced, it's not a "cut and paste from 
behind a firewall" job, and the wiki page is a bit vague about what the 
expected attribution is.

In any case I'm thinking the only person with standing to raise the issue 
didn't seem upset when he mentioned the usage....

R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
Replies: Reply from rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron) ([Leica] roger ebert just posted one of my photos on his blog)
 In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] roger ebert just posted one of my photos on his blog)