Yesterday Forbes announced their selections for “The Web Celeb 25”, which includes my friends Violet Blue, Xeni Jardin, Robert Scoble, Merlin Mann, Jimmy Wales, Om Malik, Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis. Congratulations guys!
UPDATE 1: Thomas Hawk makes a great point about how Forbes decided to ignore the Creative Commons license on several of the photos they used for the story by not providing a photo credit for the photographer. Originally the article was using a photo I shot of Merlin Mann for his write-up, but they have since replaced it with a boring screenshot. It appears that they have done the same with the other photos, including Thomas’ photo of Om Malik. All they needed to do is contact me, I would have gladly given them permission to use my photo, I’m sure Thomas would have been the same.
UPDATE 2: Forbes has contacted both Thomas and myself and they are re-instating our photos with proper attribution. I’m really impressed with how Forbes has responded to this issue and hopefully it will encourage other publications to do the same.
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Publications and designers really need to educate themselves about creative commons (it is ironic there is a CC logo in the photo
of Scoble
http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/23/web-celeb-25-tech-media_cx_de_06webceleb_0123top_slides_10.html ).
It doesn’t seem like it would be too hard to learn to ask permission since this is happening over and over (a couple of photos I took at Macworld in 2006 were used without my permission in thousands of copies of the exhibitions and events guide at Macworld 2007
http://flickr.com/photos/ari/351048901/in/set-72157594469020893/ ).
It looks like they’ve communicated with Thomas Hawk since his photo is back up with a credit.
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