I’ve long since moaned (“If it’s on the Internet It Must Be Free”) about how badly the Daily Mail sources photographs and then wrongly attributes copyright to photos on the Mail Online service.
I’ve just had these two wonderful blog posts (from the same blog) brought to my attention. The first post reveals that the Daily Mail took pictures from Twitpic and used it in one of their articles without permission from the copyright holder (i.e. the photographer). The second post details what happened when the Group Managing Editor gets in touch to “apologise”.
I wouldn’t mind so much, but given the number of times I’ve seen them attribute copyright wrongly and use pictures from Twitpic and other services (which retain the original copyright of the photographer), it’s not so much an incident that’s happened by accident or carelessness, but downright arrogance.
