Copyjacking = copyright + hijacking. Copyjacking + hotlinking + framing = inline linking.
As Jay Parkhill points out, I’ve been having a conversation on Facebook about a new term “copyjacking” in light of the Freakonomics incident.
For those of you not on Facebook yet, here’s the full text of my original post:
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If your website is on this list, then it is likely that you have been a victim of hotlinking by Freakonomics.
When John McCain built his MySpace site by linking to images that were not hosted on his website, it was big news on Digg, TechCrunch, and elsewhere.
For the past two months, popular blog Freakonomics has been… [read full post]
A second call for Freakonomics to clean up its act.
On Friday, I blogged about how Freakonomics posted a provocative photo on its blog and that the use was probably not fair use. As I investigated the matter, it became clear that Freakonomics was engaging in widespread image hijacking: namely, directly linking to photos on other websites, a practice… [read full post]
A call for Freakonomics to clean up its act.
Earlier this week, I noticed a photo of cleavage on the Freakonomics blog. And I wondered. Where do these professional blogs get such high quality photos? Surely they are paying for them. Right?
Better Blogs With Photos
Conventional blogger wisdom says that adding photos to your blog
