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"When is sharing stealing?"
in Casual Photo Conversations
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<p>In the oatmeal vs funyjunk case you posted, I'm not sure "sharing" is the proper word. If someone wanted to share what they think is a funny comic, the more proper way would be to include a small thumbnail and a link back to the original source. Funnyjunk is merely allowing their users to post other people's work and then sit back and make advertising revenue off of someone else's creativity. It's even worse when they don't even properly credit the original source.</p>
<p>More generally, I take a fairly conservative view of "sharing." If you take something that someone else creates and unilaterally decide to "share" it with the rest of the world, you have in fact stolen opportunities from it's creator. I'm listening to Moby's newest album right now - if I decided to upload it so other people can download it for free, I've taken control away from Moby and decreased his ability to recoup the cost of putting the record together - not that different from what funnyjunk is doing to the creators of the comics it posts.</p>