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imprezawrxsti
Location: Portland, OR Gender: Male Total Likes: 139 likes
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| | | | Hi, Westword! < on 9/30/2014 6:20 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Hi, Westword writers! Since it has come to my attention that your paper seems to really like being a member of UER.CA, I though I'd point out that copying entries and photos from the (admittedly antiquated) Location DB is plagiarism. People who read your site may not know this, as they are not members here, but anyone here can see that no actual journalistic work was done for this story. You simply copied and pasted entries from the private DB onto your public blog. Also, you stole photographs from a few personal friends of mine. Not cool. The photographs in the DB are considered to be the copyrighted intellectual property of the respective photographers. It is a closed system and is not considered to be public domain. Seriously. Get off of UER, Westword writers, and go explore something. Then, write something original about that instead of stealing your content from here. Otherwise, I see some costly copyright violation lawsuits in your future.
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| AvsFreak
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| | | Re: Hi, Westword! < Reply # 5 on 10/2/2014 4:24 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| RabidMonkey
Location: Denver, Colorado Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes
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| | | | | Re: Hi, Westword! < Reply # 17 on 1/14/2015 2:58 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I wrote them a letter to resolve the issue in a friendly manner and it's all sorted (with the post outright removed). Although I hope in future that they either reach out to photographers if they want to use their work in Westword blogs/articles, or at least expend the extra effort to find content that can be freely used without any doubt or ambiguity (either photos in the public domain or usable under a CC license, etc...) In my experience with using other people's content off of the internet I've always gone with the assumption that if a piece of work isn't explicitly released under a free or copyleft license (or some derivative of these which allows for re-use), then it's probably copyrighted in some way. This is what I was taught years ago, and it's always been reinforced in my professional experiences. But I've only worked with images in the context of film/CG and video games, so maybe this assumption isn't as common in journalism (although, to be honest, it would really surprise me were this the case). The thought crossed my mind that perhaps the author might think that using images in this way might be considered a 'fair use' case, but that seems like a bit of a stretch, especially considering the photos are essentially the whole of the blog posts in question. Oddly enough, in most of their other articles/posts (which contain (presumably) original writing/articles), the images are typically credited, even though using them in this way makes a stronger case for treating the content as a fair use case (but this is just IMO at this point, I'm not a lawyer or anything).
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