This photograph is free!

I find this picture of the Eiffel Tower beautiful. A guy named Tristan Nitot took the picture and posted it for people to share and enjoy in a post called “This photograph is free.”

Free picture of Eiffel Tower

He posted it in response to some other guy whose name I don’t know who posted a picture he took entitled “This photograph is not free.” I won’t link to him because I’m afraid he might attack me and if he doesn’t like sharing I won’t share.

Because I like beautiful photographs and people sharing, I’m sharing his beautiful photograph. I commented on his site

I find your picture beautiful and your act to share it adds to its beauty.

You made the other guy’s picture (the not free one) and motivations look ugly by sharing yours.

I predict your picture’s popularity will go the way of Wikipedia (not to become one of the biggest sites on the web, but to have its popularity increase) and his will go the way of Britannica.

Bravo!

You, dear reader, are free to distribute your work however you please. Personally, I prefer people in my life who share.

By the way, I looked up the Mr. Nitot. He founded and leads as President Mozilla Europe and his blog reaches 12,000 readers daily. Sounds successful to me.

Be Sociable, Share!

About Joshua

Former rocket scientist now entrepreneur, leadership coach, speaker, and artist, Joshua Spodek (PhD ’00, Astrophysics; MBA ’06; both Columbia University) has succeeded at many big things that few people even try. More importantly, he loves everything he does. A modern renaissance man, he studied with Nobel Prize winners and helped build a European Space Agency X-ray satellite to observe supernova remnants, then started a business now operating globally based on several of his patents. He coaches leadership with the Columbia Business School Program on Social Intelligence and taught at New York University and the New School. He earned five Ivy-League diplomas; has shown his art in solo gallery shows and museums and installed large public art in New York and around the world; socializes with Academy Award winners; ran five marathons; and competed at national and global sporting events. He has been quoted and profiled in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Fortune, CNN, and the major broadcast networks. Esquire Magazine named him “Best and Brightest” in its annual Genius issue. More here: http://joshuaspodek.com/about
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