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September 01, 2009

Sports Journamalism

If you put your photos on the interwebs, you're going to see them appropriated for other sites. Usually not a problem unless commercial considerations are involved.

But this caught my eye:


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Full article here


So, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution nabbed a photo off my site (scroll to bottom) and attributed it to the Texas Rangers? Really?

Oh, well. I do wish they'd hotlinked the photo instead of copying it directly to their site. A few years ago, an Italian metal band ("Lost Highway" or "Endless Highway" or some such) linked to this photo...

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...on its MySpace page. So I replaced it with this:

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The band (or its webmaster) didn't notice for three months.

Posted by Lucas at September 1, 2009 03:08 PM