I don’t find it an honor to have someone heist my IP — and most of my colleagues feel the same. Generally speaking, we prefer to receive formal written requests for such usages, and to make our own decisions regarding where and when to put it online. That’s a basic professional courtesy in the publishing world, to which Mr. Rickard appears oblivious. Let me be blunt about this: Copyright violation and other infringement of IP rights is never — I repeat, never — “a win-win for . . . photographers and content authors and clearly for the photographic community as a whole.” It’s theft: rude, arrogant, selfish, and unjustifiable. It sets a bad precedent generally; moreover, in the case of a given individual, not pursuing such infringement can void protection of one’s copyright at a later date. […]