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Money for nothing: selling “stolen” Flickr photos

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 23 June, 2008 to the comment subset

Chances are you may never want to post any more of your photographs to photo sharing websites after reading this story.

A man goes to an REM concert. The conditions on the ticket banned taking photographs, but Steve Miller and his wife, who were conveniently seated in the middle of the front row in the Royal Albert Hall in March, noticed that everyone around them was taking photographs and the staff weren’t stopping them. So they took some, too - about a dozen nice, bright, clear, good-quality concert photographs. Miller put them up on Flickr, as you do, and thought little more about it. Then one day in mid-May Alison Clarke, another Flickr user, contacted him to let him know that his photographs were up for sale on eBay.

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