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Hello,
Here's a news you need to know.
New York Times photographer Robert Caplin has sued famous blogger Perez Hilton (Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr.) for using his photos without his consent. The blogger used 14 photographs of Glee actor Darren Criss on his blog without permission. The photos were owned by Caplin and were originally published in a NYT story.
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the photos but he also applied his own watermark on the photos claiming them his own! When Caplin contacted the blogger, he apologized and agreed to take down the photographs but didn't. So that's when he decided to sue Hilton. Caplin is asking for $150,000 per image for each of the 14 images the blogger used, so $2.1 million in total.
What is interesting is that Robert Caplin's website has measures in place to prevent people from downloading images so in order to circumvent that Hilton just took screen shots of the photos. Something that we have been saying all along on our blog - if the photos are out there someone will copy them! So you better protect your photos with a watermark.
Read the full story at The Phoblographer and PetaPixel.
Litigations are expensive and not everyone can afford to sue. Prevention is better than cure. If you haven't got uMark already get it today and protect your photos.