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About licenses, photos and online mobs

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

About licenses, photos and online mobs
Over the past day there’s been a little “crisis” going on over at FriendFeed. Let me introduce the contenders first:

  • Kol Tregaskes, who liked a photo on DeviantArt which made it to his FriendFeed account (on June 19th!) via visualize.us
  • “velonka”, the photographer of that photo and model in that photo who noticed the image on July 6th
  • The picture on DeviantArt, originally marked as Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License

Now, after a few weeks of no action at all, the photographer noticed the photo on FriendFeed and didn’t wait a second to rain down some foul language on Kol:

VerothicA: WHY IS MY PHOTO HERE? are you fucvking retarded? remove it now! Its for Deviantart.com members ONLY you asshole!!!! – velonka

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