Comments on: TechCrunch gets it right on Hartwell

By: Garfield and the response to new media » mathewingram.com/work |

Garfield and the response to new media » mathewingram.com/work | — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:20:39 +0000

[...] about copyright and the merits of the “fair use” principle (for that, you can see this post and related posts), but I thought it was interesting to read about the response by cartoonist Jim [...]

By: Convergence of Business Processes: The Lane Hartwell Eye-Opener « The Pursuit of a Life

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:36:50 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Excellent summary by Mathew Ingram here. [...]

By: Yen Lai

Yen Lai — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:50:56 +0000

Agreed.

It is all about the money.

And all this talk of copyrights and not stealing from artists and plagiarism is all a smokescreen for a hack to get paid. It's so disingenuous it makes me sick.

This photo in particular isn't art, she takes pictures of tech guys at parties, with a digital camera, with an on-camera flash. We're not talking Robert Frank here...

By: Yen Lai

Yen Lai — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:50:56 +0000

By: Jope

Jope — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:21:38 +0000

In the end, it's all about the compensation, as some of us suspected long ago, and not about attribution or “not replying nicely to an email request”.

It's so easy to close up your photos in Flickr, or simply to use a real photo sales site, that it's really hard to understand why LH didn't do that in the first place…

It's all about the money, Zappa said it best a long time ago… :)