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Michael, regardless of the issue of who does and doesn't own the copyright - it is 100% clear that the copyright owner is not yourself. You have blatantly 'lif
by dkarl 15y ago
Michael, regardless of the issue of who does and doesn't own the copyright - it is 100% clear that the copyright owner is not yourself.
You have blatantly 'lifted' these photographs from somewhere - I presume the Daily Mail online. On the presumption that you do not like to encourage copyright theft (regardless of who owns it) then please remove the photographs.
The insidious assumption here is that someone must own these photos, if not the author then somebody else, because everything has an owner.
Once explicitly articulated and challenged, this assumption will be defended on the grounds that anything that is not owned is worthless, and assigning ownership gives it value. If this viewpoint is resisted, and if it eventually triumphs, we'll find that those who resisted it own nothing, and those who forced it on the rest of us own everything.
This has happened before.
- danking00 15y agoMy first thought, after reading my parent, was Native Americans (really, indigenous peoples worldwide) and European colonists. Is my parent referring to other cases as well?
- dkarl 15y agoYep, that's the example I had in mind.
- rtperson 15y agoThe other example is the Enclosure movement in Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure_movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure_movement), where nobles simply stepped in a seized land that had been for common use, in some cases throwing people out of their homes to do so.