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Copyright Advocacy Group Violates Copyright

Posted by kdawson on from the how-to-thoroughly-discredit-yourself dept.

word munger writes "Commercial scholarly publishers are beginning to get afraid of the open access movement. They've hired a high-priced consultant to help them sway public opinion in favor of copyright restrictions on taxpayer-funded research. Funny thing is, their own website contains several copyright violations. It seems they pulled their images directly from the Getty Images website — watermarks and all — without paying for their use."

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  1. May I be the first to say.. by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    they totally got pwn'd on this one.

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    The game.
  2. Re:Submitter didn't do their homework by admactanium · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, royalty-free is different from free. Royalty-free means that you don't have to pay based on the number of uses of the images. It does NOT mean you get it for free.
    repeated for accuracy.