Photographers' rights: an image problem

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"<a href ="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tboard/3641251623/" target=blank>Bean Worship</a>," Copyright © 2009 Teresa Boardman."Bean Worship," Copyright © 2009 Teresa Boardman.

The idea of content being king on the Internet is not a new one. If some of that content consists of photos, there are some rules that need to be followed.

One of my blog readers took me to task over a photo I took of "The Bean" in Chicago. The bean-shaped metal sculpture -- its real title is "Cloud Gate" -- is a public work of art, located in a public park and it is photographed so many times a day that I am surprised it has not faded. People come from all over the world to worship the bean.

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