Creative Commons Creating Problems?
Posted in Random by Evan at 6:12 pm
This post was published 2 years 2 months 1 day ago and its content may not be valid anymore.What do you do when you find a picture of you has been used in an advertisement without your consent? That’s the questions asked when she discovered a photo of her was taken off of Flickr and used by Virgin Mobile. Take into consideration that the image was used posted with a CC License which states attribution must be given with any use of the image, and this was done on the advertisment. Take a look at the discussions on Flickr and tell us what you think of the situation.
As a side note, am I the only one chuckling at the headline “Virgin sued for using photo of Texas teen”
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People gotta pay attention to the kind of stuff they put on the internet of themselves and how it can be used.
I mean the girl who owns the photo even said in the comments “What does that mean-CC license?”
Looks like they didn’t violate the Creative Commons License, but *did* violate the law by not obtaining a model release.
Lessig’s thoughts
http://lessig.org/blog/2007/09/on_the_texas_suit_against_virg.html