Advertisers: Don’t be stealing photos of MyFaceTube, please ask first

10Nov/091

Read today an interesting article about how Toyota had taken a photo from a user on Flickr without asking, and published it on their website promoting one of their new models, 4Runner SUV. It's opened up a whole string of user-generated concerns around ownership, licences, and permissions.

You can read how this started on Michael Calanan's Flickr account, and he is quite honest, giving his views, comments and updates on the site. This user-generated commentary is great to read, as it engages the rest of the community around the issue and creates an interesting debate.

My dad, John Haysom is a very good photographer based in Dorset, and has had images even shown on the Meridian TV weather updates behind the presenters. He recently mentioned to me someone had ripped one of his photos off his site, or one that he uploads too. How bloody rude, even if they put a link back to his website.

So whilst this website has few images on it, mainly as I've been far to busy to get around to adding them, or have written the blog posts via my iPod Touch, I have a word of advice for advertisers;