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Author here. I really had trouble finding the photo of the Statue of Liberty during night that I could use in this article. Unsplash gave me just this one phot
by r3bl 9y ago
Author here.
I really had trouble finding the photo of the Statue of Liberty during night that I could use in this article. Unsplash gave me just this one photo. Wikimedia Commons gave me nothing. Flickr gave me more results, but they were mostly from Vegas (easy to spot for me) or Tokyo (difficult to spot for me). I have re-searched Flickr now (with the "all creative commons" filter selected), and I still can't find a photo that I could guarantee is a real thing, let alone a photo that looks as good as the Unsplash one I have used.
I now regret making that decision, because if I knew that this was Tokyo in the background, I would avoid using it.
- dudek1337 9y agoHere are some: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statue_of_Liberty_at_night https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statue_of_Libert...
- tritium 9y agoNonetheless, it adds an even greater depth to the absurdity of the premise of intellectual property your article discusses. A photo with its own special attribution and reuse rights, depicting a full-scale replica (possibly with its own special rights for time of day), of an original that, by way of simple expiration under the letter of the law (and not so much in the spirit of the work itself) has effectively released its photographic and replicative rights to the world, which do not cascade on down to other replicas or depictions. So I can produce an inspiring and original work, permit the world to replicate it in full and depict in images, but those that do so can make me beg to reference their work. Riiiiiight.