DISQUS

Agreed.

It is all about the money.

And all this talk of copyrights and not stealing from artists and plagiarism is all a smokescreen for a hack to get paid. It's so disingenuous it makes me sick.

This photo in particular isn't art, she takes pictures of tech guys at parties, with a digital camera, with an on-camera flash. We're not talking Robert Frank here...

Shelly,

I may be coming into this a bit late... but I couldn't help to notice this comment from you.

"What I admire about Hartwell is her consistency. Regardless of the vilification, she's never wavered in her response or her assertions."

And here's my problem.

Lane says this in her first post regarding the Richter Scales:

"People have asked me why I’m taking this action. When I find someone using my work without my permission, I ask them to remove it or pay a fee. They usually remove it and we are finished. The band did not remove the image from the video when I brought it to their attention and instead they told me they had the right to use it. They could have easily apologized, removed the video from YouTube and re-edited without my image and reposted."

And now that they have removed the photo, and re-uploaded it. Lane is still asking for payment by sending an invoice.

That seems like wavering to me.