OK so I'm dense I guess, but how does that relate to your two points? Is the OP more or less credible for using that ad network? I assume you feel less somehow?
No no no, Andy is amazing and does wonders for promoting the interesting and relevant out on the net every day ... I'm just trying to bring up the point that he has an art, he is paid for that art, and I think that's a subtly in a lot of fair use issues. Arguably the iconic nature of the photograph was at least in part, because of there being sponsorship of the site capitalized on. It's fair use, I'm sure, or at least it should be, I'm not a lawyer... the point I guess I'm making is what I posted which is to elaborate 1) that money is changing hands during these publishing acts 2) you can support this sort of fight or possibly be complicit if it is not deemed a fair use, and to me that's just a weird spot to be in, and I wonder what those lines are, or what they should be, or some way to codify fair use, or a way to codify that it shouldn't be codified, or some way to monetize the problem, and hence conversely a big part of that is that fair use should be incredibly clear in cases where there is no profit motive, but this is a sponsored site, so that specific aspect of my own inner debate doesn't apply, and really should it make a difference?
I see advertisements on his website, perhaps you run an adblocker or something? Specifically I see an ad for an upcoming conference. Plus the selling of it then I guess gets to the heart of the transaction point anyway, I thought the album was free.
He's selling the album on another website - there's a link towards the end of his post ( http://kindofbloop.com/ ). I admit that I do have an adblocker, but I still don't see how it's relevant that he has advertisements on his blog - unless you're saying that he's profiting off this blog post, and that that affects his opinion?
Hrmmm... yes, but it doesn't affect his opinion, it merely exists, and should be considered related to the facts of his former threat of a case against him, or or should be a situation that is considered a subtle something ... anyway, someone already put my point much better than this, see elsewhere.
