Kotaku steals photos for posting and doesn't credit them

[Zoglog]

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/07/12/12/kotaku-steals-pictures-from-a-blogger

oh snap

[Chris in Cali]

Ehh... it's not right, and unprofessional, but once you put something up on the internet it's pretty much fair game.

[InuFaye]

who cares.
The Internet is Serious Bussiness.

[Scorch]

must be a slow news day.

[pete5883]

Either everyone missed it, or Kotaku added a link to the original in the first offending post. lol @ lawsuit.

[Ikohn4ever]

dude its Kotaku, its not like its real news, its video game news

[dafoomie]

If they're pictures he took, he owns them. Kotaku using them at all without permission is copyright infringement, doesn't matter if they credit him or not.

[PyroGamer]

dude its Kotaku, its not like its real news, its video game news
They still make money off of ad sales, enough in fact to make a respectable living for certain members of their staff. The man who took those photos deserves his cut. Not to mention, regardless of the money Kotaku is making off stealing other people's work, the images are his property and he has the right to decide where and when they will be used.

[H.Cornerstone]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/house-keeping/on-photos-333661.php

Just a little heads up to those of you who read Digg and Kotaku and maybe have seen the "Kotaku steals photos" story floating around out there. Here's the full story.
The owner of a site we linked to a few months back, also using a cropped version of their pic, emailed me yesterday to let me know we had used his pictures without his permission or authorization.
I sent the info on to HQ and then headed out to spend the rest of the day setting up for our Child's Play fund raiser in Denver. Hours into the fund raiser, the emails starting rolling in pointing out the story that, I can only assume, the site owner had written, saying we had stolen his images.
This morning I got a hold of the site owner and we were able to resolve the issue. Now back to nursing my Child's Play fund raiser hang over.


Issue resolved.

[AshesofWake]

lamest. thread. ever.



glad to be a part of it =D

[Tsukento]

This is news to some?

[phear3d]

glad they took care of it. how much to shut the guys mouth? they probably gave him $100. or microsoft points. maybe even expired passes for The Covenant. either way should work, yawn..

[DarkRider23]

Happens all the time. Nothing really new =/

[Chacrana]

Who fucking cares anyway? I've never heard of these people that Kotaku allegedly stole from and I'm sure I'm not alone in not giving a shit.