IP Camp Lawsuit: Virgin/Creative Commons/Flickr Dispute
(newly famous teen camper, Alison Chang, flashing the peace sign at her camp counselor)
Oh what a tangled web the internet can be.
As reported yesterday by the Sydney Morning Hearld, a teenager whose photo was taken by a camp counselor who posted it under a Creative Commons license on flickr and which eventually showed up on a Virgin Mobile televsision ad, has sued everyone in sight, including (mysteriously) Creative Commons itself. See Virgin Sued for Using Teen's Photo here.
We have to clean up the kitchen after a delicious Sunday brunch, after which we will return to this post with reasons why an early mediation of this dispute could solve all of the parties (not to mention society's interests better than litigation ever could.
I'll just leave you with this thought: if you had the choice between making your own rules and letting the Courts make them up for you, which do you think you'd choose?
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