worldwidewebber:

I’m a bit pissed off (those that know me won’t be suprised by this), I’ve just found my photos being used again without the right permissions.

Photographers are treated terribly mostly by big corporations who have enough legal know-how to know better. Who cares that you spent time and effort building up a collection of photos, they just seem to think it’s ok to raid it.

I fully sign up to reproduction of content, provided that the original owner’s rights are considered and their wishes for usage met. All my shop front photos are released under a Creative Commons licence (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike), which basically means anyone can:
Copy, distribute and transmit the work and adapt it as they like provided they credit me, do not use it for commercial gain and use the same licence on any work they produce using it.

An angry email from a shop owner (that I won’t go into here) brought my attention to the BBC’s ONE show using some of my photos to illustrate a story, something about Martine McCutcheon and bad hair cuts (it’s currently here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qcph8 but only for the next week).

Here is the image from the show:

This is clearly a missmash of my two photos below (plus another that I can’t work out right now)

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I’ve emailed a complaint, apparently they have a 10 day agreed response time. It’s not the first time this has happened to me (and many others) and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I’ll be sure to post the response.

See also Peter Zabulis’ story www.flickr.com/photos/petezab/4276745361

and Mike Laurie’s blog post http://madebymany.co.uk/creation-curation-and-social-contract-002800

and www.flickr.com/photos/emilywebber/4310404245

The list goes on….