While Flickr loves the metadata that is in your photographs when you upload them, merrily adding the information to its database, it then turns around and strips it in its resized versions that it presents to the world. This leads to headaches tracking down creators and only adds fire to the orphan works problem. →

Copyright is supposed to protect the creator of an original work. When applied to the mass of creativity that is being unleashed by the general public on the Internet, however, its default protection is something akin to that provided by a piece of tissue paper when an elephant sneezes. This isn't how it was supposed to be. →

While browsing CNET News.com this evening, I saw that one of the lead stories featured John Battelle. The photo of John looked eerily familiar, but I haven't talked with anybody from CNET in a long time about using a photo. It turns out that it had been misused with a familiar story. →