| People’s pics on the net - free? |
Do you really need the approval of a person in order to use his picture for your own benefit? Yes you do.
Seems I’m not alone in finding my pictures posted around without my permission. Meg from not.so.soft found her passport picture on an advert in a newspaper. Read her story and comments. I mean, the nerve people have sometimes! (to make sure I won’t piss off James - he’s the guy that found the ad in the first place.)
About my own case, I got a msg from Tapuz managment saying they are sorry and that my picture will be removed. Lucky for them I thought the whole issue was a great laugh, I know a lot of people that would have sued them for this.
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Here is yet another twist with a strange coincidence:
an ad uses Bloomberg’s photo to legalize marijuana
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/09/bloomberg.marijuana.ap/index.html