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The value of a blog is the writing. They don't really depend on the one photo they use. The "value" of the website in question is that they get to laugh at phot
by poet 16y ago
The value of a blog is the writing. They don't really depend on the one photo they use. The "value" of the website in question is that they get to laugh at photos that you can't use commercially. Without the photos, the website is nothing. A legal battle around this question probably depends largely on the lawyers arguing about where the value of the commercial entity derives from.
To get a real answer you'd have to ask a lawyer. But my intuition is a blog that uses one photo per post in fine, while the website in question is not fine because it requires the photos to even exist as a website.
- _delirium 16y agoI don't think there's any legal requirement on text:photo ratio; photojournalists' blogs that are nothing but streams of photos of people in public places haven't been required to get model releases, and are probably protected by the first amendment. Granted, most of them are more legit journalism than this is.