'Copyright 2005 News Group Newspapers Ltd and/or its licensors'They're not claiming ownership, but stating that its either copyrighted to them OR their licensors, ie, sources from which they license images. I'd imagine that The Sun already pay a fee to the copyright owners of any 'shopped images, so a b3tan who used the image without permission doesn't really have any right to start piping up about ownership or demanding credit unless the image is a totally original piece of work.
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Ptortoise,
Wed 6 Jul 2005, 19:46,
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They don't payneither do they credit. That's the point.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Wed 6 Jul 2005, 19:57,
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They don't pay b3tans for using images they've shoppedbecause b3tans have no claim over shopped images which use source images that've been used without permission.
What you're basically asking for is The Sun to identify a b3tan as being the person who broke the law by shopping a copyrighted image. Which they have done, after b3ta was named as the source.
I think you're confusing 'breaking the law' with 'courtesy'. It'd be courteous of The Sun to give credit to whoever shopped the image, but considering the context of the story which is all about the fact that digital artists are shopping amusing pictures of the French losing the olympic bid and showing the pictures to illustrate this, they're hardly trying to make out that they own them.
(What you're basically asking for is The Sun to identify a b3tan as being the person who broke the law by shopping a copyrighted image. Which they have done, after b3ta was named as the source.
I think you're confusing 'breaking the law' with 'courtesy'. It'd be courteous of The Sun to give credit to whoever shopped the image, but considering the context of the story which is all about the fact that digital artists are shopping amusing pictures of the French losing the olympic bid and showing the pictures to illustrate this, they're hardly trying to make out that they own them.
Ptortoise,
Wed 6 Jul 2005, 20:10,
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