Originally shared by Romain GuyOn plagiarism
A few weeks ago, a company called AppCam sent out a press release to several photography websites [1] to claim that +Leica Camera had stolen their software for the user interface of the new Leica T. I do not particularly care whether this is a true or not, even though I find their claim dubious.
What I do care about is that this company decided to publicly accuse another of stealing actually stole my work. The screenshot of their website below [2] shows that their are using one of my photos. The original can be found on my Flickr account [3] or here on Google+ [4].
Almost all of my photos are available under a fairly permission Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Under this license, derivatives of my work should be licensed under Creative Commons and appropriate credit should be given. AppCam failed to do both. More importantly, they are using my work for commercial purpose.
This is not the first time I've seen my photos used incorrectly or without permission but I find this case particularly embarrassing for AppCam given the context…
[1] http://petapixel.com/2014/06/06/appcam-claims-leica-stole-software-leica-t-slams-via-press-release/
[2] http://www.appcam.org/virtual-grid/
[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/romainguy/8414791929
[4] http://goo.gl/JcXly0
A few weeks ago, a company called AppCam sent out a press release to several photography websites [1] to claim that +Leica Camera had stolen their software for the user interface of the new Leica T. I do not particularly care whether this is a true or not, even though I find their claim dubious.
What I do care about is that this company decided to publicly accuse another of stealing actually stole my work. The screenshot of their website below [2] shows that their are using one of my photos. The original can be found on my Flickr account [3] or here on Google+ [4].
Almost all of my photos are available under a fairly permission Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Under this license, derivatives of my work should be licensed under Creative Commons and appropriate credit should be given. AppCam failed to do both. More importantly, they are using my work for commercial purpose.
This is not the first time I've seen my photos used incorrectly or without permission but I find this case particularly embarrassing for AppCam given the context…
[1] http://petapixel.com/2014/06/06/appcam-claims-leica-stole-software-leica-t-slams-via-press-release/
[2] http://www.appcam.org/virtual-grid/
[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/romainguy/8414791929
[4] http://goo.gl/JcXly0