Yep, there are precautions and common sense steps for journalists and publishers to take. For example - there is no practical Web need to upload images larger than 500 pixels wide. That precaution speeds up your uploads and also ensures that copies of these lo-res files will produce unsatisfactory enlargements.

The other thing to do for a publisher account is to use the privacy settings to take the photos out of public and search engine view. You can do that on Flickr and still produce the richly annotated slideshows I taught you how to create.

Unfortunately, there’s no reliable marking for photos. How does the media (or, for that matter, any photographer) profit from traffic on the web when others divert that traffic?

I understand the desire to link and quote and do mashups and other manipulation of media. But I am also concerned about intellectual property rights.