Comments on: Metro allegedly takes Irish Blogger’s photograph without permission and more

by: Blurred Keys

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:32:40 +0000

Metro Ireland’s rubber ducks…

Bloggers go ducky as Metro uses photos without permission A well known Irish blogger and Flickr up-loader, ‘RedMum’, has said one of her photographs of rubber ducks in the Liffy was published - without permission or credit - on the…

by: dagit

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:30:13 +0000

most the things i see here are in metro a few days later

by: Daragh Mc Grath

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:01:02 +0000

See, this is the thing with the internet. I knew nothing of the fact that ye guys had written about it either (and certainly don’t have a problem with that, that’s how blogs work!). I, nor anyone else, can read every publication out there every day to see if they’re using our pictures or words or ideas. It’s a pain, but I certainly think the Irish blogging community should start keeping an eye out for each other, and see if our work is in fact being reproduced elsewhere.

Another strange coincidence (and that’s all I’m calling it!) occured in the Irish Times this weekend - see http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/09/30/learn-to-cook-mexican-food/

by: twenty

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:49:49 +0000

The byline on the article is interesting as well…