Bob Sullivan writes a great article titled:

That famous space shuttle photo: When is sharing stealing?

on photo rights when amatuer photos go viral.  He examines the case of Stephanie Gordon who tweeted her cell phone photo of the spaceship endeavor that she captured from the air through her passenger cabin window aboard a Delta flight to Palm Beach.

Sullivan writes that Stephanie’s photo has now been viewed an estimated “1 million times, and shown by media TV, Web and print news outlets around the world. She was paid by precisely five news organizations. ”

And that’s the issue discussed in this article how “Gordon’s now-famous photo of the space shuttle Endeavour soaring through the clouds got her an overwhelming amount of attention — her 15 minutes of fame, Internet style. It also landed her smack in the middle of an ethical and legal debate that may be as important as the future of the Internet itself.”