Is Elon Musk blocking some photographers on Twitter because they want him to give them credit for their photos?

That’s the claim some shutterbugs are making after Musk apparently blocked some photographers this week after they went on Twitter to say that the Tesla EO should give credit where credit is due when he sends out a tweet that includes a photo belonging to someone else.

According to PetaPixel, a news and information website for photographers, the controversy began Tuesday when Musk tweeted a photo of a lightning strike near a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was on the launchpad in Florida. In his tweet, Musk added the comment, “Ride the lightning!”

The photo was taken by photographer Richard Angle, who has a made a career out of taking pictures of rocket launches, but Musk didn’t mention Angle’s name in his tweet. When Angle learned of Musk tweeting his photo, he tweeted out a link to Musk’s tweet — there’s a lot of tweeting going on here — along with the comment, “Well, this is cool, my watermark is there!”

Well this is cool, my watermark is there! https://t.co/skebHdUlOl — Richard (@RDAnglePhoto) August 7, 2019

However, Musk appears to have had second thoughts about his original tweet of Angle’s photo: Anyone clicking the link in Angle’s tweet will be sent to a Twitter page saying “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”

In another tweet, Angle went on to say, “[Musk] should have just RT’d it or added my @. Creators deserve proper credit, we don’t make a living from watermarks.”

Other photographers headed to Twitter to throw their support behind Angle, and the belief that Musk, and others, should give proper credit when they send out a tweet that includes someone else’s work. That’s when Musk seems to have hit the “block” button.

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Tesla didn’t respond to a request for comment from Musk about his Twitter blocking.