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What We're Reading: The Unsettling Story of a Creative Commons Photo Scam

By David Schonauer   Wednesday January 13, 2021

In 2013, photographer Kyle Cassidy uploaded one of his images — a shot of humorist and NPR personality Peter Sagal going for a run along Lake Michigan in Chicago — to Wikimedia Commons. Nearly seven years later, the photo was at the center of a bizarre scam involving affiliate links, …

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