I’ll tell you what I want. What I really, really want… Paying July 6, 2007
Posted by greatarchitect in Entertainment, In the News, Viral Images.trackback
Hmmmm, first the Daily Sport. Then NUTS. Then EMAP and ZOO magazine. Today seems to have put me on the next (still very, very low) rung of the ladder with the appearance of one of my images in the super, soaraway SUN ‘Newspaper’
The image in question being the one directly below, and appearing not only on their official website: HERE
but also in print, here:
(Thanks to Tim @ Bloggerheads for braving the Newsagent to actually buy the ‘Newspaper’ – I owe you 30p.)
Thanks to the eagle eyes of a few people over at B3ta.com there is now an issue with more ‘de-tagging’ of created images. You’ll notice that the online version (in the link, above) has been deliberately photoshopped by ’someone’ to cover up my original tag and yet the printed version (main pic.) still has a partial tag visible. It’s a quandry, isn’t it.
Will probably get in touch with the Sun later on, with the aid of a few others, and see what happens, and will certainly report back here on the progress.
I wouldn’t mind if it was some of my ‘better’ photoshopping they used, but I cringe every time I look at the image in more detail. Still, I’ve never claimed to be a good photoshopper, and thankfully I don’t have to rely on it for a salary. A point also observed and backed up in some of the ‘less than postive’ criticism by some guys over at Fark.com – HERE. – Hey guys, I didn’t ASK for it to be nicked, de-tagged and printed, ok 
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about what I should ask for in payment terms, seeing as they’ve printed it without any attempt to contact me directly. Do I go straight in with a request that page three stunner Keeley, 21, tells us her thoughts on the current state of the Middle East in her next topless appearance specially dedicated to me? Or do I hold out for something a little bigger, like one of their super soaraway £9.50 holidays to Skegness?
Suggestions welcome.
35p actually… but I’m sure we can settle it like gentlemen.
As I noted with Emap, publishers are expected to ‘make every effort’ to find out who created any given image/photo before using it, even if in their tiny little minds it is categorised as ‘a viral email’ (and therefore not subject to copyright in an equation that has yet to be explained to me).
The Sun clearly did not do so in this case.
My sympathies about the theft. It’s going to be a long war this one…still, it’s good to have Mr Ireland on your side.
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