Filed under: Television, Blogs, Sports
Tracey Gaughran-Perez blogs at Sweetney, co-edits and co-"overlords" Mamapop, and like many of us, has a husband who watches NFL crap games.
For once, being parked in front of a football game served a useful purpose. During a break in the action on the field, Tracey's husband noticed that the picture of a pug in a Santa suit FOX was airing looked an awful lot their THEIR dog in his little Santa suit. Thanks to the power of the TIVO pause, Tracey was able to ascertain that the FOX NFL pug photo was the very photograph she had taken and posted on her blog and in her Flickr account with the slight modification of a photoshopped Santa hat.
There have been many instances of blogger photographs being used without their permission, but this might be the first time a television network has been caught lifting pictures. The network has blamed the snafu on a low-level production assistant. (Does no one train interns or assistants anymore?!)
Tracey has responded to the theft of the All Rights Reserved Copyrighted photo with a list of reasonable demands that included a spot in the upcoming American Idol competition and a large sum of money paid out in unmarked twenties. It will be interesting to see what transpires in what Sweetney has dubbed Dog Photo Kerfuffle 2007.
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