http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/ Switched Comments for http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Mar 5th 2008 7:03AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Mar 5th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 21st 2007 7:53PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 21st 2007 8:18PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 21st 2007 9:23PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/HOWEVER THE WAY THE COMPANY USED HER WAS OUTRAGEOUS.]]>Sep 21st 2007 9:31PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 21st 2007 9:47PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/
I don't have an issue marking some of my images under the CC license but I would mark them non commercial, in other words they can be used by students for projects etc, and I would never put one of these licenses on an image with a person it it.]]>Sep 22nd 2007 10:15AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 22nd 2007 6:45PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 22nd 2007 7:47PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 23rd 2007 2:49AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/1). "Dump your pen friend" means dump your pen pal...for those of you who don't know what a pen pal is, it is someone you write to using old fashioned snail-mail. Very much not racist.
2). "Free text Virgin to Virgin" means that Virgin Mobile customers can text each other for free. Same thing as "Free text Verizon to Verizon" or "...Cingular to Cingular".
3). The girl's family is right in saying that Virgin shouldn't have used the girl's image without her permission.
Now, though, they have drawn more negative attention to the girl than the whole "offensive" ad campaign did. No one probably noticed anything derogatory about the ad until the parents pointed it out to people, and some people still don't understand how the caption is supposed to be racist. The parents should have just stopped their complaint at "They used her image without permission" because the other stuff they are saying makes them look stupid]]>Sep 23rd 2007 6:39AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/
The copyright issue alone should net this girl and her family a healthy compensatory sum, but the mis-use of her image and the context in which she has been presented to potentially millions of people, should make for a serious payout. The victim and her family should milk this baby for all it's worth.]]>Sep 23rd 2007 7:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 23rd 2007 7:33PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/
The only issue seems to be whether Virgin Mobile is allowed to use the photo of the girl without a model release, but as I understand Australian law, no model releases are necessary there. So it boils down to jurisdiction. Can an Australian company (following Australian laws) use a photo of an American taken in America without following American privacy laws?]]>Sep 23rd 2007 9:28PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 23rd 2007 10:14PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 24th 2007 2:00AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 24th 2007 9:21AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 24th 2007 9:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/virgin-mobile-steals-teens-flickr-photo-for-ad/Sep 25th 2007 11:05AM