Secrets of the City

Re: photos used without permission. For the past 10 years or so, I have been “coughing guy” in KSTP-TV reports. Anytime there is a story on the cold or flu in the area, there I am, sitting in the lobby of Regions Hospital, coughing up a lung. My neighbor, a loyal Hubbard fan, says he sees me on teevee coughing 3-4 times every year.

DeRush- I saw that on flickr last night. So bizarre to see a “big” company do something like that. I immediately updated my licenses to all my photos. I’m not a big shot local celebrity so I doubt anyone would use them, but still…

I assume they just searched for fair pictures and that popped up. I’ve had many people ask to use my pictures before, and I always say yes. One pic showed up in a book about bathroom graffiti, and the author sent me a copy of the book. This is just lame.

Well, you can bet your sweet ass I won’t be using Sky Sotheby’s real estate services anytime soon…

(mainly because I’m poor)

You like my a**? Thanks!

I do kwatt… i do.

*blush*

Heck, yeah, Jason, you should’ve gotten some kind of bennie for compensation. Fair tickets would’ve been a nice gesture on their part.

I’ve had several requests from authors or publishers to reprint some of my postcards. The site’s even been linked to as part of a course syllabus at an Ivy League school. All I’ve asked for is attribution since, technically, all I really own are the individual cards, and the scans of them I’ve made and use online. The images are fully in the public domain; 99% of what I display is over 70 years old. It’s only my presentation, or the ways I use the hard-copies I own for retail purposes, that’s copyright.

So far I’ve had Old Tokyo named in print in a German architectural magazine, the Royal Academy of Engineering journal, a Dutch book on the history of the Japanese food industry and, soon, a kimono encyclopedia.

Sadly, none have offered to build me a house, fix my plumbing, deliver meals, or add to my wardrobe. But they have sent along copies for my bookshelf.

Where oh where is that Daily Show billboard? I must see it in real life! I must bask in its subversive glory!

I wish the Colbert Report was here instead. He’s clever.

That Stewart guy is lame and annoying.

I heard the billboard is down by the airport, near 77 and 494 I think.

OMG! The Daily Show billboard is all kinds of awesomeness. Yes, the billboard in on 494.

I may have to give up my two tickets to the Daily Show. Boo to that.

I e-mailed Sky Sotheby’s, and suggested in the future they e-mail asking permission. As the ad was for free fair tickets, I suggested that they would have gotten a lot of goodwill if they e-mailed to ask permission, and then offered a couple tickets. Got this odd response.

Thanks for your email, I have already had a conversation with our Marketing Coordinator about this situation prior to this e-mail. Rarely do we use photos from websites outside of our professional photographers photos. If there is a situation such as this that occurs again, I have informed our Marketing team to always reference the photographer, and of course be sure it is a photo that we are legally able to use. This was a good lesson learned, and unfortunately we do not have state fair tickets to offer you.

In all that BS they managed to avoid apologizing. And it’s really great they learned a lesson to avoid in this future, but how about doing something about it RIGHT NOW? Seriously lame.

Jason, you need to respond back with, “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”

Have Seth go and throw sticks at their windows.

Ugh, that is the worst type of bullshit e-mail that was probably read and re-edited by his manager. Lots of doubletalk and weasling.

Stewart renewed his contract with Comedy Central and will continue to host The Daily Show through 2010. Stewart is paid a reported $1.5 million for one season of The Daily Show. According to the Forbes list of Celebrities, he earns $ 14 million per year.

I guess being Jewish excludes him from the complete trifecta; he is of course a voracious capitalist and THE oligarch of his show.

Yeah, the e-mail makes me more upset than the use of my photo.

Jason, you need to respond back with, “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”

That’s what Shelby would have done.

Listen up companies: saying “i’m sorry” is so very easy. Try it. It feels good.

Good suggestion, J. It will never get past Legal, of course.

That billboard is beautiful.

Like neonmamacita sez:

So freakin’ rad.

It’s all kinds of awesomeness.

So insightful.