I’ve said this in different locations before but government images are in the public domain regardless of who gave it to them or if they’re public - if they ever got into a case about that it’d be thrown out by any competent judge. Them saying not to use images given to them by government officials, current or former, is completely wrong and monetizing off it can actually be illegal. I can go more in-depth, but I’m eating lunch right now.
It came from there? I pulled it off of an old reddit post.
But they don't own the images they're paywalling. Photos from NWS surveyors especially, which are in the public domain due to being a part of a government employee's official duties. Unless a private citizen or organization gave TornadoTalk EXCLUSIVE permission to use a photo in an article, they cannot legally take action against someone for posting photos they don't even own.
If that is the case, I’m surprised they haven’t gotten into a legal case yet. Correct me if I’m wrong, but public domain images and ones that they got explicit permission to be used in an article I would imagine are two different things, and either way having them take action against you whether it’s right or wrong is a whole messy process that I’m sure no user is gonna want to go through lol. A few pages back while discussing the Ringgold tornado a user pasted some of their writings found in their paywalled article, which is a whole other thing. Moral of the story, I’d avoid posting any material behind their paywalled articles onto the thread. Better to be safe IMO.
No, images taken while someone is doing their duties (ie surveying) are public domain whether they were published or not. Soliciting payments for those images are iirc illegal under some code I forgot the exact name of.
Interesting. Yeah, I just noticed virtually all of their paywalled articles have giant disclaimers about redistributing material that’d result in actions being taken to deal with the matter, and they have an entire separate page about that as well. I figured I wouldn’t want someone affiliated with them to find out users on the forum were posting material and whatnot that came from their paywalled summaries, and have them “take action” against an unsuspecting user. But good to know, thanks for the insight.
Here you go. The reason I myself haven’t contacted them is because I’m not trying to get into it with them as a high schooler; I have more important things to do than to argue online.
Yeah, look at Diaz high end eF4. Small little guy lol
Wedges can be ef1 too.
Yeah there were at least 2 wedges from this yeat that were somewhere between 1 and 1.5 miles-wide and were rated EF1.
I’m surprised nobody pointed out how this is almost identical to the Harper 2004 damage.
No "quite possibly" about it. In fact, if you told me to raise a finger for every tornado I think was stronger than Piedmont, I wouldn't be able to raise any.
I feel like Piedmont might have been a bit more violent than Smithville.
This is a reasonable assertion, unlike the one about Robinson IL from 2023 being stronger than Smithville.
