{"id":932,"date":"2009-08-18T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/ripping_off_tom_robbins_photog\/"},"modified":"2009-08-18T14:57:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:57:50","slug":"ripping_off_tom_robbins_photog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/ripping_off_tom_robbins_photog.html","title":{"rendered":"Ripping off Tom Robbins&#8217; photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Urban took this photo while on staff of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/writers\/index.asp\">Seattle PI<\/a>, before the photo staff was downsized to one and the PI moved to an online-only ghost of itself, no arts staff at all:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tomrobbinsphoto.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/tomrobbinsphoto.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"266\" height=\"387\" \/><\/span>It&#8217;s a great shot, which is why it has proved popular on the Web. The only thing missing from this happy story is credit. Neither Urban&#8217;s nor the PI&#8217;s name appears <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.dobryden.com.au\/blog\/uploaded_images\/280robbins-784031.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.dobryden.com.au\/blog\/2009_02_01_archive.html&amp;usg=__B4adttYrPyLDD-pZG_G27W25L6s=&amp;h=406&amp;w=280&amp;sz=32&amp;hl=en&amp;start=5&amp;sig2=eWjuXn_j6SjVIIT3wJ79iw&amp;tbnid=f44HFq8-lKtCDM:&amp;tbnh=124&amp;tbnw=86&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dtom%2Brobbins%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den&amp;ei=JiOLSu3sHI6otgPN1pHCDQ\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/i285.photobucket.com\/albums\/ll76\/Brockali13\/Myspace%2520Shit\/TonRobbins.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thaddeusmouse&amp;usg=__BPl3MDAaDzHC4x3rln3pPYtnmmU=&amp;h=406&amp;w=280&amp;sz=32&amp;hl=en&amp;start=75&amp;sig2=9R6cW1ceR_yFpcIV-zbDYw&amp;tbnid=IUwwS6iUGkai1M:&amp;tbnh=124&amp;tbnw=86&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dtom%2Brobbins%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D60&amp;ei=OSaLSvHsEZaytgPNvKDBDQ\">here<\/a>. Ruby Montana did the right thing <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-S-z8KMbCI\/RmB3wS_yXUI\/AAAAAAAABKQ\/k_lIliOUrp4\/s400\/280robbins.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/palmspringscoralsands.blogspot.com\/2007_06_01_archive.html&amp;usg=__lCO7EwcQVshFCXmsq2mP21_2diQ=&amp;h=400&amp;w=276&amp;sz=34&amp;hl=en&amp;start=37&amp;sig2=l_hpscXdFgC0KL3ryTO-dQ&amp;tbnid=EzuSOFV0YGi1HM:&amp;tbnh=124&amp;tbnw=86&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dtom%2Brobbins%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20&amp;ei=piWLStjMJKLutQOzsLHUDQ\">here<\/a>. As an art critic who relies on the Web, I&#8217;m constantly urging artists, galleries and museums to make their images reproducible. The prospect of being ripped off hinders free flow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Urban took this photo while on staff of the Seattle PI, before the photo staff was downsized to one and the PI moved to an online-only ghost of itself, no arts staff at all: It&#8217;s a great shot, which is why it has proved popular on the Web. The only thing missing from this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}