Familiar photos in the Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald. People at Fairfax Media, “Photo: Supplied” is not a credit. “Photo: Mike Pitts” is. I’m happy that you used this, it’s one of the ways I like to remember Mick, but nicking pics without credit (and if you’re not going to pay, a link would be nice) is shabby, even for a business nobly competing against News Corp.
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I have ‘liked’ this post, but I don’t really like it at all. Absolutely dreadful. Credit should be given at the very least, as you say. There are some that would be contacting their solicitors right now. Grrr!
I take the view that if you put images online, to a certain extent they become fair game. Most of the photos on this blog are mine, but I do occasionally put up other images, typically from press releases or screen grabs. In this case I didn’t think they deserved it, but normally I would consider a link and a credit a reasonable exchange. Swapping stuff around the web is part of web culture, and I expect it. It would be quite different, however, if I saw one of my photos in another medium (in a book or on a postcard, for example), which would be wrong unless it was done through me.
What does annoy me, is when I see my photos used online without credit or a link, and doctored as if to disguise them! It’s a cruel world.