BC is an English Professor.... so he's used to slamming on people for not properly citing their sources.
I am very good friends with a couple of photojournalists, and work in and around licensed art all the time. It's just part of my normal life, I guess.
Yeah, but those are professionals... this wasn't a professionally credited photo, was it? I guess I'm still not 100% certain about what happened.
Dame has used a couple of my pics and given me props..... this is no big deal. He wasn't going out of his way to get over on this dude. He just saw a great pic of him and Kobe
I mean, if we're going to nitpick over Dame's use of another man's cell phone picture of Dame that the other man posted online for Dame to see...... I expect perfection!
It doesn't matter if he's a pro or not. The little guy should be protected by copyright just as much as the big guy. What happened: 1 - Dude takes a photo of Dame hugging Kobe in the hallways under Moda Center when Kobe signed a jersey for Dame. 2 - Dude posts the photo to twitter. 3 - Dame takes the photo out of Dude's post about his photo, and reposts the photo. 4 - Dame didn't tell anyone where the photo is from. 5 - Dude snarks that Dame shoulda changed the color or contrast or put an Instagram filter on it if he was gonna pretend the photo was his. 6 - Canzano claims that Dame is a monster.
You want to censor us by burying us? In that thread? I know threads get derailed all the time here, but I like that thread just the way it is. C'mon, FAMS!!
Haha. How could the photo be Dame's? He's in it! Of course someone else took it. I get that Dame should have done whatever instagram magic one has to do to repost something on twitter or what the fuck ever it was. It's the right way to do it, for sure. On another note: In this day and age of constant reposting of everything posted and reposted on the internet, I suspect there are about a billion instances a day of non-attributed non-profit reposting copying sharing and editing of absolutely everything that is posted and reposted. Dude might be well served to get used to it instead of trying to publicly embarrass someone over something 99% of people don't give two shits about because they all do the same exact thing.
I don't disagree that this happens constantly. That's obvious. But who has the weight and power determines some of the moral obligation. There was a tiny bit of lol stfu bullying going on by the person with the overwhelming position of power. It just rubbed me the wrong way.
