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Originally Posted by Cherry7
It is almost always the other way round the blogger is taking copyright material from newpapers which are being sold and put on the Internet for nothing. As many posts here.
The other point is if you are making the material freely available, it is difficult and illogical to ask to be paid for it later. The only mistake the guy did was not credit the source.
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As a blogger & photographer who protects his copyrights, I think you are WAY off base here. Posting something on my own website for the world to see free of charge still holds value for me. That value being traffic and the income generated by advertisements on my blog. When somebody steals my copyrighted material and re-posts it elsewhere, it devalues my work and takes away from my profits. Even if I'm not making a dime, it's still my work that I own the copyright to and nobody has the right to use it other than me.
There is really no argument here. You are dead wrong. That's not my opinion, that's copyright law.