Newspaper blamed of violating Copyright Laws

A recent example of community-based journalism is an article published in the Toronto Star. The article was based on a dispute between a motorist and a bike rider, but the article was originally posted in a blog, which was then taken-up by Toronto star without the permission of the blog citynoise.org. Though Toronto Star gives due credit to the blog, the Stefen Sinclair Online Blog, which elaborates on this Copyright violation says: As someone who likes to use images in my blog posts, my class presentations, etc. (without always the due diligence that could become a full-time job), I won’t be the first to cast a stone, but I find it truly remarkable(and a bit disheartening) that a commercial publisher like the Star seems to blatantly ignore copyright laws when it comes to digital materials found on the web.. The article in the Stefen Sinclair Online Blog also says that the editor of the citynoise blog claimed: The photographer explicitly denied the Star permission to use the photographs. Via: stefansinclair