Comments on: BBC fail to attribute photo of their own building licensed under Creative Commons

By: BBC Munchy Box infringement | The 23x blog

BBC Munchy Box infringement | The 23x blog — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:00:39 +0000

[...] irony of this was that I’d recently commented on the Technical Fault blog shortly after the BBC used one of his photos by mistake. The difference is that they’ve [...]

By: Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:24:29 +0000

Oh, the irony. The BBC have now used two of my images on their website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/chris_hawkins/kebab.shtml

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:17:20 +0000

Leica – I see your point, but I agree with Jared. In any case, it seems the image has been removed – although I’ve had no word on the issue.

By: Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:06:48 +0000

Leica, in this situation, it’s always a “rogue designer”, which is why licensing should be treated more seriously by organisations. The BBC will not expect the designer to take his own photographs, so they should require as part of the work a declaration that all work is being used legitimately.

I’ve had photos misused by journalists and it’s been a straight-forward process to get them to cough up something like £100+ for not honouring the license. I called the photo desk, proved the photo belonged to me and received a cheque a few weeks later. They’re used to it and paying the odd ton-plus every now and then suits them better than checking every photo’s provenance and license.

By: leica

leica — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:48:29 +0000

I’m not sure if it’s fair to blame the BBC necessarily. HR is no longer done in house but by an external supplier. Chances are high the web design was outsourced yet again, and the person who sourced the image doesn’t know or understand how to follow licensing agreements. In the past two months alone I’ve corrected two designers when they opined about how wonderful flickr was for sourcing images without the hassle of license agreements and rights management.

I do not speak on behalf of the BBC, but I know, certainaly in terms of other things like software, license adherence is very very strict, and unauthorised installations quickly get “disappeared” from users’ machines.

I’m sorry this happened. I find it pretty reprehensible when people steal images, but my gut feeling is a rogue designer, rather than the BBC are the likely culprit here.

By: James Hatts

James Hatts — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:42:10 +0000

BBC London used a video clip from the SE1 website without permission or attribution – I’ve spent this morning filming a piece for the BBC’s Newswatch programme that will go out this weekend about how material like this is handled by the BBC.