Microsoft was mooned..and the link came down
Corporate theft of amateur photos is "exposed" in this rollicking Washington Post article
Stolen Web SnapShots
From theft to teen photos posted on Flickr causing suit against Virgin Mobile Australia (alleging invasion of privacy of the teen girl, whose light-hearted photo taken at a church car-wash is plastered all over advertisements without her family's consent, and failure to credit the amateur photographer, a violation of Flickr policy) to repeated posting of stolen pictures on Babble (blamed on an intern intractably oblivious to copyright law and who, according to the article, was fired because of the copyright flap).
Larry Lessig of Stanford University and founder of The Creative Commons, opines that as average folks have their own material appropriated, it will eventually results in better behaved individuals and corporations.
To understand the "Microsoft was mooned" reference, we commend you to this amusing article.
We find the solution one photo-filching victim employed gives a new slant on "self-help."
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