Moneyfacing is, apparently, the new craze, according to the Daily Mail: "photographs of folded-over banknotes placed in front of a person's half-visible face." The Telegraph also has a moneyfacing article.
But the Mail is being attacked in the comments on its story for using Thom Shannon's pictures without permission. Here are some of the current comments:
You did not ask permission to use any of my photos and haven't even credited me. I do not want my face appearing on this website and neither do my friends, please remove them immediately. Thom, Liverpool
The Mail has at least removed this reply:
Thom: Liverpool, Lighten up a little, you sound like a petulant toddler. If you put images on the internet, do you really think they will stay in one place? Now climb out of your pram and go and pick up your dummy ...
Other comments include:
I'd say that as the photographs are a pretty intrinsic part of this so called feature, asking for permission to use them would be the very least this so called newspaper should've done.
Yet again, you have stolen images from other people and published them without a single attempt to ask permission to use them. Shame on you AGAIN
You would think that a newspaper, & I use that term in the loosest sense of the word, would have a better comprehension regarding copyright infringement of digital media. Using someone's images from another online source, where some rights have been reserved, is generally not the done thing. Oh look, what's that over to the right. It's only an ad supported website, so I'm assuming some revenue is being made from other peoples intellectual property?
Shame on you for using other people's work without their permission. It's an absolute disgrace.
Hmm. Thanks to Alison Gow for the tipoff on Twitter.
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