[Commons-l] (Free) culture clash: Virgin ad campaign and Flickr photos

[Stephen Bain]

Some people (especially Flickr users) may well have heard of this
story already; an Australian ad campaign for Virgin Mobile Australia
has been using photos (mainly CC licenced ones) from Flickr. It's
causing some consternation not only because of the somewhat offensive
content of some of the ads, but because the people behind the ad
campaign didn't ask permission from the photographers - or perhaps
more importantly, the subjects - before using the photos.

I just blogged about it if anyone's interested:

http://thoughtsfordeletion.blogspot.com/2007/07/free-culture-clash.html

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com