Posted on 09/13/2013 11:19:26 PM PDT by Windflier
Edited on 09/14/2013 6:38:24 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sarah Palin and her political action committee have been named in a copyright infringement lawsuit over the use of an iconic 9/11 photo.
The newspaper publisher North Jersey Media Group Inc. is suing the former Alaska governor for posting a copy of the image on Palin’s SarahPAC website and her personal Facebook page without permission.
The photo depicts three New York City firefighters hoisting an American flag among the rubble at the World Trade Center after the 2001 attacks.
“What do david Plouffe, David Axelrod, chief of staffO donough,Stephafine power,Rice,Valerie Jarrett, both obmaas, both clintons,and many others inthe regime all have in common? THEY ARE ALL LAWYERS.”
Now THAT is downright depressing!
I do have to wonder, I used that iconic photo on my fb for 9/11. Am I safe since I didn’t add my name per say?!
All the chatter or rights etc is just plain sickening.
It was intentional and anyone with a functioning brain knows it. Get Sarah, what a lovely mantra these twits have at their ready. Pathetic.
Me too. More than I can say.
It is entirely possible Sarah didn’t realize this was private property. When pointed out to her, she apparently took it down, which was the right thing to do.
That picture has been shared millions of times on Facebook without a peep from those who own it. But Sarah Palin does the same thing, and they slap her with a federal lawsuit.
Does that not give you even a little twinge of outrage?
Maybe Sarah should check with her lawyers before she blows her nose....
Good grief.
She posted it on her personal Facebook page to accompany a written tribute to the victims and heroes of 9/11. How is that commercial usage?
If Palin can show that it has been used many times without permission by the copyright owner, then the copyright owner can not enforce his rights to the image. It becomes 'public domain.'
When claiming a copyright, the onus is on the owner of that right to enforce his right. That is why you see Disney go after pre-schools that use images of Mickey Mouse without permission even if they are making no money on the image. If Disney allowed them to use it without permission, Disney could lose their rights to Mickey Mouse.
If just the small percentage of us who are truly angry would get up and demand an end to the insanity, it would stop.
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
- Samuel Adams
Oh, they didn't just complain. They slapped Sarah with a federal lawsuit, despite the fact that she was merely using the picture as part of a tribute to the victims and heroes of 9/11 on a Facebook page (like millions of others have done).
According to posters upthread, Getty has a web crawler that scans cyberspace to find unauthorized usage of their images. When they do, a letter is sent to the user.
They appear to be protecting their copyrights.
thanks for the ping
Oh Oh! I have had that picture on my profile page since 2001. Are they going to come after me?
For informational purposes the photo in question is at this site. Note the
lower right corner where SARAHPAC.com is incorporated into the photo.
Yes, they probably are coming after you already...they just haven’t arrived.
Sheesh! That photo has been in the public domain since mid-September 2001.
Copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. It is NOT public domain.
I agree that their going after her is totally chicken sh!t, but they are in fact completely within their rights to do so. And we all know that of Hillary uses that on her facebook or campaign web site page, they won’t say a damn word.
**OR**
Hillary’s people will call the copyright owner and ask permission to use is and it will be given without question.
RATS doing a little research and garbage can digging again.
Yeah, like the whole Democrat Treason Industrial Complex.
The the families of the terrorists should sue as well; without their hard work the photo would not have been possible.
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