Laura Brunow Miner (Space Miner) has a short and well-written suggestion for people posting on Tumblr to get it together and credit your sources for photos and quotes.
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve found something very interesting on Tumblr only to have to jump through hoops just to find out who created the original artwork (photograph, image, or quote). It’s very annoying not just from a reader’s point of view but from an artist’s point of view as well because people’s work are often just taken out of context and posted without any recognition of the original artist.
I consider it common courtesy to link back to either the artist’s website or the page from where the artist originally posted their work and at the moment, Tumblr seems to be the largest single site that is guilty of doing neither. It’s always a long line of reblogs and reblogs and reblogs, with no one in the middle even bothering to stop and think about where that image or peice of artwork came from.
So get it together Tumblr. Take a look at the revised post mock-up that Laura created and integrate that into the Dashboard area. Pronto!
isn’t it also considered copyright infringement then if they don’t credit?
I think it’s actually copyright infringement either way, but at least crediting tells the viewer where one can go to get access to the actual rights (if needed).
I know that we covered this in my business class for photographers at school, but it still gets confusing.
I dont know about this crediting crap, people on tumblr need to seek permission before they use someones copyrighted work. Just because they give credit or a link back to the page they stole from does not mean they can use it.
I agree. What is it with tumblr users that they don’t want to post credit?
I can usually find the source of a photo from someone who uses google blogs, or wordpress. But tumblr seems a site for people who have never heard of citation.