Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses? 227
eldavojohn writes "My friend Drew was notified via Twitter that one of his Flickr images had been selected as poster child for freeloaders who abuse the benefits system in an Elsevier news story in the Netherlands. The original image clearly gives an CC BY-NC 2.0 license to the image which doesn't appear in the story — a story which generates revenue for Elsevier. My friend doesn't speak Dutch so he's a little confused about what, if anything, he can do in this situation. I'm reminded of a family's Christmas photo showing up on a billboard in Prague and I wonder if photo sharing sites are treated as free to abuse regardless of copyright by foreign businesses? Has anyone else heard of this sort of thing happening with images from social photo sharing sites?"
How can you be a freeloader? (Score:4, Funny)
When information wants to be free?
Re:How can you be a freeloader? (Score:2, Funny)
You must be new here. Information only wants to be free when I don't want to pay for it.
Re:Why do you do it? (Score:4, Funny)
Very good question. Given how almost everybody does that, it should not be difficult to find out. Maybe someone who does can enlighten us? Here on /.?
I fear, however, that the answer will lead to even more troubling questions.
Flickr's recommendation (Score:4, Funny)
1. be really ugly
2. have a cheap, crappy camera
3. just take really bad, crooked, blurry shots
4. Photoshop a cheesy top hat, moustache, and monacle onto all your photos
It looks like a lot of folks on Flickr have already implemented these security measures.
isnt there a rule about this (Score:3, Funny)
If you dont want your pictures all over the internet...dont put them on the internet. Sorry but whining about the use of pictures placed on imgur or flickr is the equivalent of dumping a pile of random pictures on a table in the break room of a busy office then complaining when one of them shows up on someones desk.