Porn Prank Sends Microsoft a Message on Licensing

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

[snip]

One Microsoft group received a rather harsh lesson in Creative Commons
licensing today: For a while this morning, Microsoft's RSS Team Blog
featured a partially censored pornographic image, which has since been
removed.

How did it get there in the first place? As the note at the bottom of the
post now indicates, the blog originally contained a much more wholesome
image that was being drawn from former Microsoft employee Niall Kennedy's
Flickr account. But when Kennedy saw that the blog was using that image
without permission, he replaced the photo in his account with another one
he found online, making that unsavory image appear smack in the middle of
the Microsoft RSS blog.

Kennedy explained via phone that he had offered his ordinary photo (taken
at the Gnomedex conference a couple years ago) for use under a Creative
Commons license, allowing it to be posted on non-commercial sites, with
proper attribution. (Hence the Creative Commons logo censoring out the
central part of the pornographic replacement image.) He wasn't pleased that
Microsoft used his photo on a commercial site, without attribution. In
addition, he said, the use of the photo violated the Flickr terms of
service by not linking back to the site.

"Basically they stole one of my photos and put it on their blog," Kennedy
said. "I decided to make them very aware of that fact."

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More:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/109335.asp

- - ferg

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