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Here’s a new take on the problem of people stealing images from the internet:
Who added that dog to my image?
As I understand it, somebody ‘borrowed’ Ben Canales’s photo, photoshopped a silhouette of a dog in the tent and posted it online.
When Backpacker Magazine — which had legitimately purchased rights to the photo years ago — decided to update the article, an intern grabbed the wrong image from the internet. (I think that’s what he means when the editor says it was ‘sourced from the web.’)
So they stole a fake of a photo they already had paid for.
I recall that’s the plot of ‘How to Steal a Million,’ with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole, or something like that.
Anyway, my point is that people should just stop swiping stuff they ‘sourced’ on the web.
