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Irish music site Golden Plec wasn’t allowed to send a photographer to a concert by the band the Killers, so photographer Debbie Hickey re-created the show in Lego. “If I can’t shoot them, I’ll build them,” photographer Debbie Hickey wrote on her blog. “Never let it be said that GoldenPlec doesn’t get the shot.”
- Courtesy Debbie Hickey
Other photographers say they’ve been forbidden to photograph Killers shows, a policy Hickey calls “ridiculous.” (I wrote a couple years ago about music artists who arguably do worse: Demand copyright from photographers.)
Just blue-skying here, but Hickey’s approach could be a great help to websites that can’t or don’t seek permission to use images. BuzzFeed’s sponsored-content problem would disappear overnight. It’d work well for Poynter, too. Here’s a Lego figure I made to represent BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti:
If anyone wants to use it, that’s fine, please just credit me.
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