Virgin Mobile Steals Teen's Flickr Photo For Ad Campaign
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A Dallas family has sued Australia’s Virgin Mobile phone company, claiming it caused their teenage daughter grief and humiliation by plastering her photo on billboards and Web site advertisements without consent.
The family of Alison Chang says Virgin Mobile grabbed the picture from Flickr, Yahoo Inc.’s popular photo-sharing Web site, and failed to credit by name the photographer who took the photo.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20896643/
This just goes to show you that you need to be very careful with the things you put on the internet. I don't know if it is true or not, but I remember hearing once that if you put your files up on photobucket their parent company automatically owns the rights to that image.
