Hey, Isn't That . . .
People Are Doing Double-Takes, And Taking Action, As Web Snapshots Are Nabbed for Commercial Uses
Tracey Gaughran-Perez says a photo of her pug, Truman, was taken without permission and used during an NFL broadcast on Fox. (www.sweetney.com)
Tracey Gaughran-Perez says a photo of her pug, Truman, was taken without permission and used during an NFL broadcast on Fox. (www.sweetney.com)
The family of Dallas teenager Alison Chang is suing Australia's Virgin Mobile for using her photo in an advertising campaign without obtaining permission. The photo, which the plaintiffs say was grabbed from a Flickr page, was used in the ad shown above. (Brenton Cleeland - )
The family of Dallas teenager Alison Chang, left, is suing Australia's Virgin Mobile for using the above photo in an advertising campaign without obtaining permission. The photo, which the plaintiffs say was grabbed from a Flickr page, was used in an ad that said "Dump Your Pen Friend," over Chang's picture. (Justin Ho-yee Wong - )
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Hey, Isn't That . . .
People Are Doing Double-Takes, And Taking Action, As Web Snapshots Are Nabbed for Commercial Uses
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Tracey Gaughran-Perez says a photo of her pug, Truman, was taken without permission and used during an NFL broadcast on Fox. (www.sweetney.com)
Tracey Gaughran-Perez says a photo of her pug, Truman, was taken without permission and used during an NFL broadcast on Fox. (www.sweetney.com)
The family of Dallas teenager Alison Chang is suing Australia's Virgin Mobile for using her photo in an advertising campaign without obtaining permission. The photo, which the plaintiffs say was grabbed from a Flickr page, was used in the ad shown above. (Brenton Cleeland - )
The family of Dallas teenager Alison Chang, left, is suing Australia's Virgin Mobile for using the above photo in an advertising campaign without obtaining permission. The photo, which the plaintiffs say was grabbed from a Flickr page, was used in an ad that said "Dump Your Pen Friend," over Chang's picture. (Justin Ho-yee Wong - )
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The pug in the corner of the Saints-Eagles football telecast on Fox looked familiar to Tracey Gaughran-Perez.
Not in the slobber-smile way that all pugs look familiar, but in the who else but me would dress their pug up in a bleeping Santa suit kind of familiar.
Gaughran-Perez logged on to http://www.sweetney.com, the personal blog where she'd uploaded a snapshot of her dog, then waited for the Fox pug -- a sort of "Merry Christmas" icon -- to appear again on TV.
Argh
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010804626.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
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By Monica Hesse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 9, 2008; Page C01
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