Collaborative Media
Derek Powazek has some interesting and useful thoughts on a recent web happening in which a copyrighted photo was used in a web video without the photographer’s permission. Two thuggish camps emerged – one supporting the web video creators with the idea that if it’s on the internet it must be free counterbalanced with a group that supported the photographer’s right to request attribution or removal of the photo. Derek titled his post “Rule #1 for Collaborative Media: Ask First.” And that’s a good one-liner to summarize what so often doesn’t happen on the internet. I get requests from people to use my online photos for various purposes. And I see a lot more people who steal my images and don’t provide attribution or anything else. They will even steal my bandwidth (I’m looking at you, BlogSpot!).
In other news, Grinderman is really goddamn fantastic.
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