On Monday, the U.S. Navy announced some new uniforms that servicemen and women could be wearing in the near future. Definitely an good story. But was it worth hotlinking to an image on the Navy’s website, Mr. Drudge?
Hotlinking to the Navy: Not off limits, apparently
October 18th, 2004 · 3 Comments
Tags: · The Internet
3 responses so far ↓
1 Steve Hall // Oct 18, 2004 at 8:22 pm
I can never understand why the FUCK people do this. It’s stealing. It’s inconsiderate. It’s lame. It’s wrong.
2 Dabitch // Oct 21, 2004 at 6:19 am
Amen Steve! It’s so bastardly annoying when people do that.
So is reposting photographs/illustrations without permission, another common blogger-illness - So Drudge breaks two rules in one go there, doesn’t he? Here’s the jist, photographs are paid for by someone, to be placed on X page. When Y places pictures on Y’s pages he just infringed photographers copyrights (as they presumably didn’t pay for the re-print rights when they didn’t even ask).
Lawrence lessig is coming to .dk to talk about ‘new’ coprights, something has to change to make the fast web have a gameplan that works. Also interesting in this context is that the Creative Commons are working on a way of working in the creative commons into sound and image files. Wehey!
3 dabitch // Oct 21, 2004 at 6:29 am
Hmm… That didn’t sound right but what I mean was, it’s theft twice over. Bandwidth+Copyrights (=eventual pay for photo/illustration)