The eagle-eyes over at Eater.com noticed my photo used in UK newspapers’ The Telegraph and the Daily Mail. I’m flattered and welcome our friends overseas to witness this monstrous beast that is Burger King’s New York Pizza Burger. I just wish they asked for permission or at least gave me a photo credit. I could have been as famous as Gordan Ramsay!
What does this mean for the bloggers? Anyone can use anything on the Internet for free without attribution? Shouldn’t these big guys know better? Am I just as wrong for posting screen shots of their copyrighted material on my site? Shit.
[Update: The Daily Mail added a © Me So Hungry to the photo]
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You stole your headline from McDonalds.
| August 23, 2010 @ 2:10 pm
They owe me for that Last Airbender Happy Meal toy.
| August 25, 2010 @ 8:50 am
It’s straightforward copyright infringement, and if you can demonstrate the pictures are yours, it should be a straightforward matter to obtain a fee from them. I am not a lawyer, but it has happened to me before, and when it’s genuinely your own work simply stolen the solution is easy (if you can be bothered to contact them). Harder with fly-by-night sites, but these are newspapers.
| August 23, 2010 @ 11:05 pm
yeah, you’re right. Thanks.
| August 25, 2010 @ 8:49 am
watermark your photos….maybe with a silhouette of your trademark shag hair do, you could be the next snooki
| August 24, 2010 @ 2:23 am
Ha, yeah. I already thought I was the Snooki of food blogs.
| August 25, 2010 @ 8:48 am
Yeah you should get a watermark sorted since you have some cracking photos – I think there is a WP plugin that can do this automatically.
Also, get in touch with the newspapers and try and get something from them!
| August 24, 2010 @ 3:03 am
Thanks, I didn’t know such WP plugins existed, but’s pretty cool.
| August 25, 2010 @ 8:48 am
I did notice that http://news.sky.com/ did attribute you for the image and gave you a nice link from their article, so thats something nice. Not sure about the other sites….
| August 26, 2010 @ 5:54 pm
That’s pretty rad. Thanks for the tip.
| August 27, 2010 @ 8:38 am
I’m really happy for you but… http://twitpic.com/i372o
| August 25, 2010 @ 12:04 am
Dang, I always feel like I’m living in the shadows of Kanye
| August 25, 2010 @ 8:46 am
Stealing photos from blogs and forums is pretty standard practise for our media I’m afraid.
Yahoo UK are giving you a shout – that’s how I ended up here.
Great blog BTW!
| August 25, 2010 @ 7:51 am
Whoa, awesome. I always wanted to be one of those Yahoo headlines. I was just thinking that recently. Thanks!
| August 25, 2010 @ 8:45 am
Yup. I’m here via Yahoo! UK as well!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100824/tod-the-pizza-burger-a-2-500-calorie-fat-870a197.html
Love the blog tho!
=)
| August 25, 2010 @ 9:20 am
Rad. Thanks!
| August 25, 2010 @ 11:07 pm
I found you due to the photo credit, too, and I’m going to share your blog with a local food critic you may enjoy: http://goodfoodeugene.blogspot.com/
| August 25, 2010 @ 2:28 pm
Hey, I work for a regional newspaper over in that part of the world and the big papers do this kind of thing all the time. Look online for the photo editor’s email address, send him or her a mail and tell them you’ll be contacting your lawyer unless they send you a fee and you’ll be sorted in a minutes.
| August 26, 2010 @ 4:03 am
You have a nice lookin’ blog!
| August 26, 2010 @ 11:36 am
Thanks…I see that Sky News are at least crediting you for the pics!
| August 26, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
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| June 24, 2011 @ 3:55 am