Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow

Copyright may not be perfect, but when applied with common sense, it's the best system we've got On 5 January, the Independent's website ran a photo uploaded to the Flickr image-sharing site by user Peter Zabulis. Zabulis flagged his photo of a snowed-over field as "all rights reserved," and he took exception to the Independent's use of the image without permission, and he wrote to them to tell them so. Exception turned to outrage as a terse note from the Independent claimed that by posting the photo...