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Photos of CablePulse24’s broadcast on July 25, 2007, courtesy of Joel Charlebois.

Just before noon on July 25, 2007, Joel Charlebois caught a man, he says, breaking into his house. When Charlebois gave chase, the man fell from the second-storey deck, landing hard on the ground below and breaking his leg. As police arrived, Charlebois—an avid photographer who has a Flickr account under the name uwajedi, who is an active member of Torontoist’s Flickr Pool, and who we’ve regularly featured—took photos of the man. One shot shows him flipping off the camera, others show him clutching his leg, others show him being approached by two police officers. They’re not the best photos that Charlebois has taken, but they’ve since become the most newsworthy.

When CityTV arrived on the scene to do a story about the burglary, Charlebois says that he “refused [a reporter’s] request for an interview….[and] asked him to leave.” Charlebois did, however, say that he “had taken pictures of the perpetrator and was looking forward to posting them on [his] Flickr site”; the reporter “was interested in seeing them,” so Charlebois gave him his card, but, he says, not permission to use the shots in any way.

Charlebois uploaded the photos to Flickr, then left for Montreal later that afternoon. (He also added them to both Torontoist and BlogTO’s Flickr pools; while we chose not to run any of them, BlogTO did.) When he came back home, he was surprised to find out that the story had aired on the 6 p.m. broadcast of CityNews (on both City and CablePulse24), and, most importantly, had included the photos that he had uploaded to Flickr (above)—without permission from or credit to him.