Comments on: Murdoch busted stealing blog content

By: sunandsnow

sunandsnow — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:33:57 +0000

Simon, love the irony of the headline in that one. And goddamn, they should be paying for something, especially if there was no prior agreement to print it.

By: Simon Rumble

Simon Rumble — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:44:25 +0000

Pete, you want another example. Here you go. Daily Telegraph, 30/11/2006 both online and in print:
http://www.rumble.net/stuff/terror_30_11_2006.png

Stole without attribution or compensation a photo my friend took:
http://www.bikesarefun.org/photos/2006-11-gabe/p1000472.php

Seems to be policy as it happens CONSTANTLY. If they ever nick one of my photos, I’ll be charging the retail Getty rate with a 10x multiplier.

By: Simon Rumble

Simon Rumble — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:37:48 +0000

Absolutely nothing new here. The Daily Telegraph regularly takes photos they find online, from any source, and puts them on their site and in print with no agreement from the photographer. This has been happening for years!

By: meski

meski — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:38:45 +0000

One error, one paper? You really want me to find more examples?

By: Pete from Sydney

Pete from Sydney — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:08:19 +0000

didn’t realise Rupert signed off on it personally, he’s got to one busy plagiarist Meski, ripping off the net on his ownski….

I would have thought to be fair that one error by one paper doen’t make a ‘plagiarist, thief and hypocrite’

By: meski

meski — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:28:42 +0000

Ah, Rupert. Aggregator, plagiarist, thief and hypocrite. What a guy.