The journal wants to ensure that anyone can read the articles and all supporting information so they insist the author of the piece allow them to publish it under a Creative Commons license. The author would like to use one of this photographer's pictures and requests the permission. The photographer doesn't want to allow that. He (the photographer) suggests "I'd be happy to let you could use it in the article as long as you won't let anyone else copy it", but that's not OK with the journal. So the picture doesn't get used.
All sounds right to me. That's how it's supposed to work.
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The journal wants to ensure that anyone can read the articles and all supporting information so they insist the author of the piece allow them to publish it under a Creative Commons license. The author would like to use one of this photographer's pictures and requests the permission. The photographer doesn't want to allow that. He (the photographer) suggests "I'd be happy to let you could use it in the article as long as you won't let anyone else copy it", but that's not OK with the journal. So the picture doesn't get used.
All sounds right to me. That's how it's supposed to work.