We all know that Flickr is really cool don’t we? I mean, I’ve certainly always thought so. Until now.
That’s why I was appalled to read this post from Rebekka who’s easily one of the more famous Flickr photographers.
She put up a composite of several photos she’d taken of her home country Iceland and explained that they’d all been illegally downloaded and sold by a UK based company for money. Going through sales on eBay, she calculated that they’d benefited to the tune of several thousand pounds. She’d talked to a lawyer in Iceland, but being relatively poor and in another country, he’d been unable to help.
There were hundreds of comments below, not all of which I read, but which were very supportive of her plight.
And now Flickr has removed the whole thing.
Thomas Hawk (another great internet photographer) has more.
Not cool.
[Update] Flickr has apologised.
[Update 2] And fronted it all up in their blog.