Vogue Spain caught stealing from Instagram User/Street Photographer

For some reason, I've seen more and more examples of blatant intellectual property violations coming from the traditional media. Pretty much every news paper's web site publishes articles with embedded Youtube videos of copyrighted material, which may or may not be legal in your country. That's just the norm these days, but it gets worse.

Recently, there's been a surge of cases like this where publishers simply grab images or other content from the internet, publish it without checking the license or giving any credit to the original author. And then they sell this material and claim it's their content.

When you cite a sentence from a magazine in your blog post, you'll get a cease and desist letter. Fair use should go both ways.

Now public apology on the feed, cited as a "mistake." http://instagr.am/p/Ju8A7as02f/ Walking out the door with someone's stuff is not a "mistake," it's theft. Same deal.