The Daily Cal has decided to grow a pair and try to protect its perennially mediocre product by making stopping CalStuff from linking to its photos. From an email sent to me this weekend:

Hi Ben,

Hope all is well with you!

I noticed a Daily Cal photo in your recent Calstuff post “Why Can’t We Nominate Someone Who Likes Us?”. Because we own legal copyrights on all of our photos, please speak to our photo editor Salgu Wissmath about obtaining a photo reprint authorization and crediting the Daily Cal when posting a photo or remove the photo from the post. You can reach Salgu at wissmath@berkeley.edu or at 510-548-8300 ext. 427.

Thanks!
Tiffany

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Editor in Chief & President
The Daily Californian

OK, if that’s how is going to be, then so be it. We’ll forget the five years of cooperation, sharing stories and facts, and good will. We certainly never asked you to cite us for the number of stories we leaked on this blog that were never even on your radar. Enjoy your power trip against a blog which makes zero money. A lawsuit against us for violating copyrights could easily take infinite percent of our profits. And, for the record, the number of Daily Cal photos that we’ve ever used is minimal at best. Next time the Daily Cal tries to take the side of the whining city residents on behalf of smaller local businesses, I hope someone out there hears the word “hypocrisy”.