DISQUS

eddie · 4 years ago

phew! comments work now.

renegade · 4 years ago

Yeah, corporate media needs to get schooled on Creative Commons licensing. Your photos are great!

sophia · 3 years ago

Looks like the Examiner article moved to a new link in their archives.

cassidy · 3 years ago

Eddie, you should seriously consider contacting the Examiner and asking them to pay you for the use of your photo. Even if you don't need the money yourself, do it for the sake of the other photographers who the Examiner will try to screw in the future. If they think they can get away with using people's photos without paying for them, it only makes it that much harder for professional photographers to make a living.

cassidy · 3 years ago

I mean, it looks to me like they really did violate two of the terms of your CC license: they didn't attribute the photo to you, and they used it in a commercial context without permission. If you don't call them on it, it blurs the line between your CC license and plain old public domain.

Ruby · 3 years ago

From the picture and from your description this sculpture sounds a lot like the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke. Cool.

Lazy reporters stealing content from blogs... and they wonder how we manage to compete with them!

eddie · 3 years ago

cassidy: I completely agree with the sentiment and will contact them. They really only violated one term of my CC license. I gave permission to Leslie Pritchett who runs the Black Block Arts Foundation to use the photo for the Examiner story, but with credit. The credit part is what's lacking. I will see about getting that corrected.

ruby: That's funny, there was an opening dedication last week with the Mayor and a bunch of kids with him. He quizzed the kids on what they thought of the sculpture and one of them also said it looked like the Forest Spirit after it had its head cut off. Great minds think alike! Check out Scott Beale's photos to see Flock in its new home.