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India: Stealing photographs

Friday, August 1st, 2008 @ 08:05 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: India
Topics:: Media

Twilight Fairy complains about a mainstream media newspaper - Times of India stealing her photograph off her flickr stream without giving her any credit or compensation.

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Shefaly

@ Neha

Nita Kulkarni found HT stealing similarly some months ago too:

http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/a-major-indian-newspaper-steals-a-bloggers-photograph/

# 2008-08-15 at 9:39 am

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