Credit be where Flickr’s due

June 26, 2009

freedom-prague

Among his forays in the world of online newspaper journalism, Blade has noted that the Daily Mail has a habit of using images from Flickr sans acknowledgement of their provenance. As has previously been noted here, all that Flickrs is not free, and a sophisticated media organisation such as the Mail must know this. Why, then, does it regularly fail to credit the Flickr users from whom it takes photographs?

Blade suspects that the answer is simple. Neither the Mail, nor various other heavyweights from the media landscape also guilty of this charge, want to add a copyright credit to ‘madsuitcase + 3′, or ‘*%$Alfie’, or ‘DW’s photobooth high’, or any of the other names with which Flickr users habitually characterise themselves. It just doesn’t look right.

But it’s no excuse. There’s more on this from The Lost Outpost.

Lovely image of Prague entitled ‘Freedom’ courtesy of Cherie on Flickr. That’s not exactly how she spells her name, on Flickr anyway, but it’s the best the picture desk can do.

 

One Response to “Credit be where Flickr’s due”

Posted by:
Andy Piper on June 26, 2009 at 9:58 am

Thanks for picking this story up. I’m in the process of billing them for the image and breach of license, and filing a complaint. As you say, there is no excuse for this.

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