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WillParkinson

(16,862 posts) Sat Jun 30, 2012, 11:23 AM Jun 2012

Gay Couple's Wedding Photo Turned Into Attack Ad

A married gay couple are outraged after an antigay "hate group" stole one of their wedding photos and used it in a political attack ad.

Brian Edwards heard about the ad from a friend who sent an iPhone picture after recognizing him and husband Tom Privitere.

"I’m in shock and I’m angry and I’m hurt and I’m flabbergasted and I’m livid," Edwards wrote on his blog, The Gay Wedding Experience.

The Public Advocate of the United States, which is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an antigay "hate group," had taken the photo right off the website, cut out the New York couple and pasted them in a Colorado setting, then slapped on it the question: "State Senator Jean White's Idea of 'Family Values?'"

It was then mailed to thousands of people, according to a report in The Denver Post, as an attack on the state senator seeking reelection. White has twice voted in favor of Colorado's failed effort to pass a civil unions law there.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/election/2012/06/29/gay-couples-wedding-photo-stolen-and-turned-attack-ad

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Gay Couple's Wedding Photo Turned Into Attack Ad (Original Post) WillParkinson Jun 2012 OP

Du rec. Nt xchrom Jun 2012 #1

Can you say LAWSUIT? n/t mzteris Jun 2012 #2

disgusting fizzgig Jun 2012 #3

CRAP Like This... RetiredTrotskyite Jul 2012 #4

Most wedding photos are professionally done and probably covered by copyright. beyurslf Jul 2012 #5

The article states that it is protected, but... WillParkinson Jul 2012 #6

Hmmm, so their house gets broken into and it now okay for them to break beyurslf Jul 2012 #7

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

1. Du rec. Nt

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 11:33 AM

Jun 2012

mzteris

(16,232 posts)

2. Can you say LAWSUIT? n/t

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 11:52 AM

Jun 2012

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)

3. disgusting

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 02:03 PM

Jun 2012

RetiredTrotskyite

(1,507 posts)

4. CRAP Like This...

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Thu Jul 5, 2012, 12:27 AM

Jul 2012

just makes me more and more disgusted with this country every day. This is not going to stop until the Courts declare that we have rights--and even then, we will have to fight stuff like this. In the meantime, this couple should consider suing these jerks. Also, wonder if couples should start putting copyrights in a corner of the photo so these hate groups can be gotten on copyright infringement.

beyurslf

(6,755 posts)

5. Most wedding photos are professionally done and probably covered by copyright.

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:28 PM

Jul 2012

WillParkinson

(16,862 posts)

6. The article states that it is protected, but...

Reply to beyurslf (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 6, 2012, 08:04 PM

Jul 2012

The Post reports that the Public Advocate refuses to apologize and claims that even though the photo is copyright-protected, it can do with it as it pleases — since others have supposedly done the same with its copyrighted images.

“Other groups make fair use of our materials or 2,000 photos from our website under these broad principles of political education," the group's president, Eugene Delgaudio, told the Post.

beyurslf

(6,755 posts)

7. Hmmm, so their house gets broken into and it now okay for them to break

Reply to WillParkinson (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 6, 2012, 09:08 PM

Jul 2012

into my house? two wrongs make a right?

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