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Related to Monday's post about copyright and plagiarism:

 

Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter

 

Joshua Kaufman, a lawyer for AFP, blamed the infringement on an innocent mistake and said the Twitter user who posted Morel's photos without attribution bore responsibility for the error. The AFP editor, Kaufman said, believed the pictures were posted for public distribution.

 

Tis points out a pitfall of one of the big issues — posting without attribution. You can't simply assume that an unattributed picture is in the public domain, and if you want to use the picture you need to track down the copyright owner. As I had relayed: www does not mean public domain (before Pedantic Man swoops in, yes, Twitter doesn't actually use www in its address. But the concept is the same)
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