Ayepecks Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 While I understand if Neowin doesn't want me to link to outside forums, I'm only doing this so you can read a post by someone else, not to go there and sign up or anything. Just read the first post in the topic (the long one) and you'll know what I'm talking about. I'm doing this because I don't want to steal someone else's work that they made to post, although someone here can do that (if they want), but I won't. It's about some of the "liberties" that EGM took to get a picture in their magazine... Link: http://forums.avault.com/cgi-bin/ultimateb...t=004455#000001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Mistakes happen. Quite frankly, unless someone actually KNEW what the source material was, it could easily slip under the radar. I saw that pic in the magazine when I opened it a week or two ago and thought "hmm...where did they get this pic from?". I guess I had the right feeling that it wasn't a picture of a bunch of EGM guys in the parking lot. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted January 12, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 12, 2004 this was posted in news, it really ****ed me off that they'd do that. the author of the article cleary knew what the picture was about, and was completely disrespectful in his actions. how would people react if he was mocking americans? there'd be outrage for sure. and then, to threaten with a lawsuit instead of apologize?? that's outrageous!! the people at EGM should be freakin' sent to the front lines of a war and left to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbag Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 I was thinking it was more of a google image search gone wrong. For all we care the edited image could have been made as a joke on a forum and the magazine author found it through google image search or some other way. And who says he (the author) knew what it was about? Overall there have been many cases like this one, its a sick and error filled world. Watch your ass. The morale of the story is, dont use google image search ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling3k12 Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Not that I care, but... it was a mistake. Who said everyone in the world has to know what that's from? So you're saying just because you do (not you specifically, a general usage of the word "you") know what it is about, that the editor of a magazine is supposed to know? Time constraints, all sorts of stuff, it all is on his mind. For all he knows, it looks good and it's off to print. I mean, if they got the photo off the net like that, Getty images, if they pay enough, they can use it, and looks like they needed permission, and it looked like they got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbag Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Exactly. Most things have a price or license and looks like EGM got that price, the price is right ;). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted January 14, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2004 it you go to the getty images site where they purchased the image from, THERE IS A CLEAR DESCRIPTION of what the image is about. it was NOT a mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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