Results tagged “copyright”

Gizmodo has a collage of Steve Ballmer photographs that they're using. One of the images is mine and it's being used without permission and without attribution. Read on...

Derek Powazek has yanked out full blog entries from his syndication feeds and is now providing simple summaries. He apparently hit his saturation point with people scum republishing his content to profiteer from his work. On the one hand, I want to be disappointed about it. On the other, I totally understand. Read on...

While Flickr loves the metadata that is in your photographs when you upload them, merrily adding the information to its database, it then turns around and strips it in its resized versions that it presents to the world. This leads to headaches tracking down creators and only adds fire to the orphan works problem. Read on...

Copyright is supposed to protect the creator of an original work. When applied to the mass of creativity that is being unleashed by the general public on the Internet, however, its default protection is something akin to that provided by a piece of tissue paper when an elephant sneezes. This isn't how it was supposed to be. Read on...