Penguin Books likes us enough to violate our Creative Commons License! Whee!!
So, I understand that book publishers leave all the promotion up to the authors, and I understand that authors, even best-selling ones, aren’t generally rich.
But as far as I can tell, almost every image in this promotional video for Katie Macalister’s Steampunk romance Steamed is used without credit:
[video taken down, though I have a copy on my harddrive]
My background is at :51, at least: Gears and wrought iron, and I’m fairly certain the blurry mechanical bits under the word “Victim” at :08 are mine too.
Note to self: new theme is terrible for searching. Fix that.
Anyway, both images are Creative Commons Licensed, which means Penguin is violating the license in three ways: they’re using it commercially, didn’t attribute me, AND didn’t release their work under CC.
I’ve moved my Creative Commons License info up to be more noticeable, and I’ve written them a email as well. We’ll see what happens.
… I’m flattered, though.
Edit: this is a long and complicated blamechain. Still working it out.
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Good luck with this one
Also being pursued here, by the photographer of the main youtube image.
http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/2352175.html
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looks like the video’s been taken down.
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Video still available @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZIGU9yofs
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I am disgusted by their actions. You have my sympathies, and I have reposted this situation to my facebook and twitter.
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I left a comment for him at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZIGU9yofs (thanks codon
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Unfortunately I don’t do subtle…
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Well, um, congratulations?
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So sorry you had this happen. I can only assume that a trailer making company and not the publisher made this video because a publisher should know about copyright infringement! Although, if it was a company they should know better as well. Unfortunately, it’s MacAlister (the author) and Penguin whose names are linked to it and they who will take the flack rather than the people actually responsible.
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Mousewrites Reply:
February 1st, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Actually, I’m in contact with the video producer, so we’ll see how this all shakes out.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Copyright citizen! I’m glad I had a face to face with the guy who took my dad’s photos without credit/for profit.. put him over the barrel good
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