I Am Gonna Shoot You.
Since starting this blog I have posted creative commons photos with credit, I have posted photos I have taken screen captures of, and I have deep-linked to photos on other sites — all the while not really thinking about the ethical nuances between each. That is why I was interested to read a post on the Torontoist about a criminal, a photographer, and the city news.
Just before noon on July 25, 2007, Joel Charlebois caught a man, he says, breaking into his house. When Charlebois gave chase, the man fell from the second-storey deck, landing hard on the ground below and breaking his leg. As police arrived, Charlebois…took photos of the man.
Then guess what? He posted them to Flickr. He wasn’t pleased when a news station broadcast his photos without his permission. Click thru to find out what happened next…
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