Via ORG:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/29/photojournalism_and_copyright/
Three things:
1. If this guy was successfully suing large corporations over copyright
infringement before the web took off, he is wasted as a photojournalist.
2. CC licenses have been successfully upheld a couple of times in
exactly the kind of scenario he is worried about (corporate use of
images without permission).
3. As always there is a gap between the "little guy" needing stronger
copyright and how the actual market for photojournalism works.
It is true that anticopyright campaigning may be useful idiocy for
future peer-to-peer media barons, and that it may financially harm
freedom of speech. These are side effects to be tackled, and can be
better tackled through copyleft and through enforecement than through
stronger copyright for the "little guy" (sic).
- Rob.
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