I find it sweetly ironic that ALL those magazines talking about stealing bikes are committing copyright infringement (which the media is used to call "stealing").
At the same time they'd probably find it a sweetly ironic show of how it's too hard to control copyrighted material on the internet or something for. After all like the article says it probably wasn't intentionally ripped or any claims avoided it more likely ended up in a stock photo site with the wrong license attached and the author never pursued it.