Rick mullarky

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since August 15, 2000

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August 15, 2000, on List of Weasels:
I am at the top of this list and I NEVER used a SINGLE IMAGE from this site! I use Corbis and Photodisc quite a bit, but often they don't have an image that is specific enough, or of high enough quality to use on our site... I came accross Mr. Greenspun's admirable collection and wondered if he would be interested in the same terms that these other sites use... Our editor sent off an email. We received a reply from a woman who signed off as the Business Development person for Mr. Greenspun-- she said they were too busy to even consider such a small deal, and that we should use corbis and photodisc... Our editor was a bit miffed at such a dismissive blow-off, and he wrote back a message warning that this 'too busy' attitude could lead to more people using Mr. Greenspun's images without his consent. I heard nothing more about it until someone told me my name was on a site which accused me of using stolen images. Apparently Mr. Greenspun took the reply to mean that we used ...