Koppie Koppie sells photos of your kids to prove you shouldn't post them online

  • 26 February 2015
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If you use Flickr you need to read this one.
 
by John Zorabedian on February 26, 2015
 
 


 
Koppie Koppie, an online business selling coffee mugs with pictures of children printed on them, is stirring up controversy - after all, the kids' photos weren't given to Koppie Koppie by their parents, but swiped from Flickr.
 
The website, koppie-koppie.biz isn't meant as a true commercial enterprise.
 
Rather, it's a social experiment, say the pair behind the site - Dimitri Tokmetzis, a journalist, and his co-conspirator Yuri Veerman, a designer.
 
It's all about raising awareness of privacy in the social media age, they say.
 
Using photos of other peoples' kids to make money may sound creepy, but the duo say what Koppie Koppie is doing fits within the confines of what's allowed by Flickr, and it's completely legal.
 
That's because the photos they're using of children and babies (sometimes shown alongside their parents) were labeled with Creative Commons licensing rights that don't restrict commercial re-use.
 
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