Fkn idiots totally and completely duped by that asswipe prick at Stanford. Corporations using images for free... because of CC... I am so totally pissed. I have been railing about it and now the pricks just announce how fkn cool it is to NOT pay professionals and use free images so some totally stupid photographer can shout his 'credit' all over Flickr. Read more here.
Idiotfkntarianphotographers... maybe you deserve the career dirtnap coming your way...
"Lower down the artistic scale we find the bread-and-butter of professional photography: routine capture of low-profile news events, product photography, pre-shot stock photography and other kinds of humdrum stuff. All of these businesses are being undermined by Flickr and its ilk. "Let's say that 20 years ago," writes one industry blogger, "a newspaper in New York was running a story about Hollywood and the editor wanted a picture of the Hollywood sign. Rather than fly one of their photographers out there, put him up in a hotel, and pay for his meals they would go to a company that specialised in stock photography. They would pay the company a fee for the licence to use their photo in the story and everyone is happy".
And now? "The newspaper can log on to a site like Flickr, find an image they like, and run it in their paper for free with just giving the owner credit (unless the licence is non-commercial). So now you have a happy editor who saved more money and a happy photographer getting exposure for his work. But you also have an unhappy stock photography business owner who has just been cut out of the deal.""
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