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That’s the way you do it

I post a lot of pictures on TSFR, and because this is the net, the search engines come along and index all of them so other people can look at them. Occasionally someone comes along and likes one of my pictures so much that they want to use it on their weblog. Most of the time, though, they want to use it on their weblog but they can’t be bothered to either credit me or ask my permission to use it.

So usually when I catch wind of one of my pictures being used somewhere else, it starts a procedure that ends with me sending a “this is my picture, these people didn’t get permission to use it” notice to the ISP that’s holding that picture, followed quickly by the picture vanishing from that site. So, when I noticed that a Ziff Davis webpage had one of my pictures, I immediately thought the worst.

In this case I was pleasantly surprised. They didn’t ask permission to use it, of course (this is the net, so this is pretty typical), but they credited me in the body of the article and they provided a link to another page on their site to let people discuss the picture by itself.

That’s pretty classy and it makes this photographer very happy.

That’s the way to do it.

—orc Sat Feb 2 23:59:13 2008

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