TOI does it yet again
Times of India, not only reused the work of professional photographer, Kalyan Varma, but also got let off very very very easily. In Kalyan’s words, “I had to work real hard to get permits to enter the cave and spend a lot of money to just access it and photograph it. Being a long time contributor of Wikipedia, I thought it would be a good to add this photo for the article as no other photo exists for this species.“
Wikipedia is where TOI picked the photograph from and reused it without respecting the CC-license. Kalyan insisted on a first page apology and got it.
But at the risk of repeating myself, we need something much more than just a front page apology to put an end to this daylight robbery that too at the hands of a publishing house.
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