{"id":14766,"date":"2014-03-14T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14766"},"modified":"2014-03-14T03:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:00:57","slug":"a-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14766","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14729\">Monday&#8217;s post<\/a> about copyright and plagiarism:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/11\/22\/us-media-copyright-twitter-idUSBRE9AL16F20131122\">Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joshua Kaufman, a lawyer for AFP, blamed the infringement on an innocent mistake and said the Twitter user who posted Morel&#8217;s photos without attribution bore responsibility for the error. The AFP editor, Kaufman said, believed the pictures were posted for public distribution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tis points out a pitfall of one of the big issues \u2014 posting without attribution. You can&#8217;t simply assume that an unattributed picture is in the public domain, and if you want to use the picture you need to track down the copyright owner.  As I had relayed: www does not mean public domain (before Pedantic Man swoops in, yes, Twitter doesn&#8217;t actually use www in its address. But the concept is the same) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to Monday&#8217;s post about copyright and plagiarism: Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter Joshua Kaufman, a lawyer for AFP, blamed the infringement on an innocent mistake and said the Twitter user who posted Morel&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}