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Publishing House Burda prints photos of Streetstyle Blogger: Without permission. Without Credit. Without Payment.

9. September 2009 Blogwatch Judith

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Very delicate story of image theft was published today by Mary Scherpe, with Stil in Berlin, Germany´s most famous streetstyle blogger. While i wrote a post on my German blog, those who are interested in getting more information about the what, the how and the why, a possibility to work together in a great partnership went wrong from A to Z, could get it with the help of babelfish.
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While i don´t intend to point with my finger towards publishing house Burda, – knowing well that some consider us bloggers to steal pictures and mistreat copyrights, too (time to fix it and to find some satisfiable solutions for all of us) -, it´s obvious, who´s the bad guy in this specific case.  But you can be sure, next time it´ll be some other corporation, brand or firm.

What´s important, is – if there´s a  professional blogger, obviously being mistreated,  going public with an incident that happened months before, you can be sure, he or she reflected this step very well.

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