Shouldn’t TVA know by now that grabbing whatever comes up under Google Image Search isn’t free for you to use as you wish?
Apparently not. On the left here is a screenshot from a TVA news report. On the right is the photo they used, taken by a Montreal blogger who isn’t happy about it being used without his permission. (For those who think it’s a coincidence, check out the train in the lower right corner of the photo.)
Meanwhile, Canoe, the Quebecor-owned web portal, also used the same photo to illustrate a Journal de Montréal story (not sure if it was in the paper itself), though they credited the author, as if that somehow gives them free reign to use other people’s copyrighted work without permission or compensation.
As a freelancer, you can imagine how much this annoys me.
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There is one problem with that photo - it’s not of the Turcot Interchange. More out by Montreal West, but not Turcot. I would have included it, or asked permission I may want to stress, on my blog long ago if it were actually Turcot.
I’m really annoyed… Tks to you to put both side to side.
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