JMDobson Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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glort wrote:
I'd like to hear the answer to chucks question: You don't have the Authority to pay but do you have the authority to publish without permission if you can't ascertain the owner of the pic?
I believe you have misunderstood me, and that's probably because of my poor communication here. If I know that what is sent to be by, in this case, the player, was not his, and I couldn't find the photographer, I would not run the photo. Period. What I was trying to explain before was that although they don't give me a budget to buy photos, I also do not knowingly steal photographer's work.
If we couldn't use the supplied shot, we would call the school's athletic department and ask if there is a photo of him that they would allow us to use that they created. If they don't have any, I would call around the friends and family of this guy and see if anyone took a photo of him playing.
I hope this helps clear things up a bit. I never knowingly would allow copyrighted content in the paper I work for, but I recognize not all papers are the same. If a student supplies a photo and lies about where they got it, could you blame me for not running it? If I get an email from a photog saying that I wasn't allowed to run the photo I would apologize, and offer to take it down from all digital publication, since I cannot remove it from printed media, I would offer to make a statement in the next paper giving credit and explaining what happened.
Small towns like mine still run on people's word. If I call them up and they say it's fine to run, that's the end of it, because we work with each other almost every day on some story.
I understand why there is a lot of anger being shown about this topic, but I am surprised that so much of it has been aimed at me. I always think both sides of a discussion should be brought up, even when it seems one-sided.
TLDR; I try my best not to steal work. If it happens on accident best I can do is remove from digital or offer a credit byline.
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