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Gawker Media´s Consumerist Steals Again Photos, Now From Getty Images

This time not from Flickr, like they did ten days ago and publicly admitted the theft through Consumerist´s editor Ben Popken.

Instead they steal now a watermark protected image from Getty Images for a story on CompUSA, written again by mastermind Ben Popken. Thanks John for the hint, but I somehow don´t buy that "Getty opts not to pursue the infringement, because it's a free ad on a really popular site whereby their name appears prominently".

Related:

• Gawker Media: Consumerist´s Editor Ben Popken Admits Publicly to Steal Photos From Flickr´s Photographers (Feb. 16, 2007)

How To Steal Content And How To Make Money With The Stolen Content: Stock Index Online UK/US Is At The Forefront Of Creative Writing

Recently someone working for the magazine VISUELL copied some sentences from Will Carleton´s Photo Archive News, without crediting the source. They later corrected the mistake, but only after we started some riots. Earlier, a well-respected industry analyst rewrote an article of a well-known trade publication, without crediting the source. All that needed to be said regarding stolen content and regarding making money with the stolen content had been said here in this place earlier in detail. I won´t repeat that.

Stock Photo Industry Magazine VISUELL: They Just Don´t Get It, Do They?

Old media in the stock photo industry.

New media in the stock photo industry.

Another day, and again another tiny little - how to say - trick?

As promized earlier, on every single day these apparent tricks would occur again, there will be a new notification, here and elsewhere.

 

More On VISUELL, The Most Famous Stock Photo Magazine And Online News Resource Ever On God´s Green Earth, Photo Archive News And Light 'em Up!

In March this year, Dieter Brinzer, Editor-in-Chief of the german magazine VISUELL, the leading magazine for the stock photo industry, published his unforgotten and legendary fax machine optimized opinion poll, together with initial media data, which he later had to adjust.

With this move Dieter Brinzer has entered beyond all doubt the Hall of Fame of the most legendary newspaper and magazine publishers in the world, together with his ingenious news editors, and for his merits in delivering what could be described as the most stunning stock photo news information source ever, he presumably will receive the Pour le Mérite, the Grand Cross of the Pour le Mérite as well as the Alfred E. Neumann Memorial Medal for Excellence In Journalism in a not so distant future.

In the light of this glory, we few others shyly stand aside.

Here´s yet another glorious example demonstrating how this stunning system constantly creates excellence in generating unique content.

[Image: Framed Alfred E. Neumann Memorial Medal for Excellence In Journalism]

 

American Photo´s "State of the Art" Blog Hits The Street, Getty Images To Acquire Creative Photographers Inc.?

PDN might possibly introduce blogs one day for the "Bezieherkommunikation" (the dateless and immortal expression of VISUELL´s publisher Dieter Brinzer about future developments of his magazine, loosely translated "communication with subscribers") in the not-so-distant future, but American Photo did it already on August 15th.

The immodest name of the new group blog is simply State of the Art. So far thirteen blog posts, but not all entries indicate the name of the appropriate author (contributors are David Schonauer, Jay DeFoore, Russell Hart, Jack Crager and Miki Johnson, the editors of American Photo magazine) properly.

Sign The Blog Sourcing Petition!

No need to add a word. Just sign: "We endorse the Blog Sourcing Petition to The Blogosphere Community", more information here: "A Petition to Commit to Proper Blog Sourcing" (Steve Rubel).

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The Moblogging Chaos At The Republican National Committee

"A moblogging operation should be taken as seriously, and as with as many resources and people, as a regular news operation ... Moblogging is suitable for breaking news or events with good visual images. It is not good for in-depth stories... ."

[© Image: guess who?]

A nice story ("Lessons learned from the RNC", Learning about mobile weblogging at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism):

Ladies and Gentlemen: it is now possible to leap to the forefront of journalism with technology available on the street. This is moblogging. The future is now.
Sort of.
Whoever thought of this was on to something when he or she decided to hire journalism students to use camera phones and the Internet as a nouveau wire service on the cheap. The idea was to be able to capture the ambiance of a political convention by assembling a mosiac of grainy images of the events via the camera phone. The images would give the viewer a near-real-time sense of the convention, taking advantange of the fast upload capabilities of the phone without the need to download images to a computer to edit or send. We would be a swarm of imagetakers and reporters, filing a photo every ten minutes on average, for the entire convention. Our editing team at the University of South Carolina’s Newsplex would edit our pictures and text, and receive dictation for longer stories, and post them to the moblog.

In practice, this operation worked only somewhat. The problems:

The picture quality is pretty poor...
[...]
We found it difficult to shoot some pictures, then take a time-out to jam out a sentence on the keypad. Typing any text of length on a numerical pad is s-l-o-w. Even with intelligent text... .

Continue to read the list of the little mishaps here.

No, Not This Again ... No Relations Whatsoever To Getty Images

[© Image Father Brown Tired]

Over the last weeks emails popped up with the question "Is this blog related to Getty Images? In any way?". The response to these emails is a very time consuming task. So: no. And it will stay this way. Except for talking about John´s diet and photographer´s choice. The latter will take over the bills when this blog exceeds the Typepad limit of 5 GB bandwidth usage. This will be the case, very soon.

Pictures of Jakarta Bombing: Has Flickr Beaten Textamerica In The Race To Beat CNN?

After the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta "Photos ... appeared on Flickr before any of the major news services had gotten it up on their sites." (Caterina Fake/Flickr, via Hypergene Mediablog: "Citizen reportage, digital photography and Flickr").
Similar at MetaFilter: "Found a photo from a bombing before the story even broke on any of the major news sites". Two reader commented: "I think it's significant that news could be received first from a "raw" source such as those, rather than pre-packaged and pre-interpreted (and pre-linked to al Qaeda) through CNN" (Link) and "no damnable copyright/license issues as money isn't involved" (Link).
So, "How much specialization and differentation can we expect in the moblog arena?" (Link)

In The Case 'People vs. SIO'...

Stock Index Online (SIO) finally generously has agreed (read the Update section at the bottom of the page) to rewrite the review about Digital Railroad. Read the new entry: "All aboard the Digital Railroad". The old entry was terminated.