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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
A Recent Back-And-Forth
Recent exchange (not a transcript, but roughly what happened)
Bandai: Here's a press release with a few images attached
Gia: Thanks! We've decided to post it. Congrats!
Bandai: Could you fix your post and put some copyright text in it saying that the thumbnail you used is copyrighted?
Adam: Are you serious? Adding legal text to a small post with such a low-res/crappy thumbnail? We've never heard of that before, we'll just delete the image altogether.
Bandai: It's a legal requirement, etc., etc. you should respect copyrights, etc.
Adam: Actually thumbnails are considered fair use online (see Google Image Search). Whatever, though, we'll just not post images with Bandai news anymore.
I understand legal departments put these requirements together, but this struck me the wrong way:
Here are my assumptions:
* It's annoying and adds no value to read legalese if you're reading a news post (TM, Copyright, etc.)
* The goal of the company is to promote their real assets, not thumbnailed pictures of their assets. What the heck could someone do with a thumbnail, anyway?
* Getting posted is a privilege. If a company wants us to post about something going on with them, they should give us the freedom to post in the way we see best for our audience, which is namely not littering the post with legal text
Did I make the right decision in removing the image altogether and not putting legalese and starting a small bickering match or should I have just let it go and put in the legal text?
Ultimately, I want to preserve the informal tone of our main page and I don't like setting precedents.
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