http://flickr.com/photos/sesh00/515961023
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20896643/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297545,00.htmlImage posted on flickr account was used in Virgin Australia’s advertisement. The picture of the advertisement was uploaded on flickr and the girl saw it. The original image was cropped, and byline was added, with a double meaning.
She is 15 and has not given prior consent. Parents are suing Virgin Australia and the photographer.
Read the details on the website. If you plan on using it to share pictures, keep it on ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Virgin is just being cheap and lazy. Couldn’t bother with finding pictures, paying for usage and getting proper release to usage. Pathetic.
1. Find out the people in charge of this campaign.
2. Secretly take pictures of them in various situations. (this way they won’t know who the photographer is when they want to sue.
3. Upload the pictures to flickr under creative common license.
4. Using the same pictures, crop them, photoshop them, and use them in advertisement outside of Australia. (Preferably countries where copyright means the right to be copied)
5. Take pictures of the advertisement which the picture was used and upload those pictures on to fickr, adding some comment.
6. See how the same people who decided to be cheap and lazy by using images on flickr feel when their image is being use to sell products. They would have little recourse because ads would be in countries where copyright issues are non-existent.
Suggestions:
Cure for baldness in India using a picture of the bald over 50 male executive.
Ayurvedic Diet pills in India using a fat lady stuffing herself with mince pie. (Great if the picture was of her mouth wide open)
Local remedy for impotence with a young, scrawny male, looking embarrassed, in Saudi Arabia. (Sexual powers very important there, I hear)
Any other suggestions… feel free to add