A story that is kind of shocking and scary, a couple Brian Edwards and Tom Privetere set up a blog showing photos from their engagement party, the group Public Advocate of the United States took their photo from their website, altered it, and began using it to spread anti-gay messages. Now Edwards and Privetere have legal grounds to sue Public Advocate of the United States, and its president Eugene Delgaudio, because these were professional photos taken by photographer Kristina Hall, and they have a copyright.
What about the average person? The person who puts their photos on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media? What are our rights? I think this is something for people to think about. It is so easy to just copy and paste and then Photoshop a photo for your liking. What if the couple hadn’t used a professional photographer? I think this story has a lot of implications into our 21st century lifestyle than we think.
photo rights belong to Kristina Hall
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