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A few days ago, the SMH showed a picture of Nick Riley, supposed secret lover of Joanne Lees. The interesting thing wasn’t the story or the photo itself, but the fact that the SMH put the following quote under the photo (I’ve highlighted the interesting bit).
Nick Riley pictured in Sydney in 2001. WARNING: this photograph is protected by copyright. Republish it and you’re in big trouble.
They’ve subsequently removed the warning, but I kind of like the cut of their jib, to quote Blackadder.
The questions are, was this a mistake and they’ve now fixed it? Was it to cover them while they had exclusivity of the photo, and now it’s not so much of a problem? Is my posting of a copy of the photo (which I’ve blurred out to cover my arse) against the law, even though I’ve covered my arse with the aforementioned blur? Does my linking everything back to the SMH site validate my use of the photo, or the blurred copy of it anyway? Or, is our expected formal language changing, and are the SMH embracing this to speak to us in conversational language we’d expect down the pub?
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