This entry was posted on
Friday, June 10th, 2005 at
9:10 am and is filed
under Photoshopping.

The Daily Sport used one of my images the other day as part of their regular ‘nicked off the web’ ‘sent in by readers’ Internutter feature. The image was cropped to remove my watermark and they did not seek my permission. They offered me 20 quid to forget the whole thing. I’m sure you can guess what my reaction was. I’ll let you know what’s going on as the matter progresses.

Hat Trick Productions wanted to use this same image, but they asked for my permission. And offered to pay. They saw it in the Daily Sport and contacted them to find out where it came from. Somehow the Daily Sport peeps knew it came from Bloggerheads, even though they claimed in a recent email that:

The image you refer to was sent to me as a “viral” image with no “credit”
apparent. I see from the image attached that the credit is clearly there.
Unfortunately, when sent to us it was not.

As I said, I’ll let you know how I get on.

Anyway, if Hat Trick do use it (it’s for a topical comedy show, and things often chop and change at the last minute on such programmes) then you should see it broadcast tonight at 9pm on BBC 1.

Meanwhile, because Everything That Is Released On Teh Interwebs Is Free, The Sun has been ripping off photoshopped submissions to The Guardian. (You’ll need to register for MediaGuardian to see the relevant image or you can simply take their – and my – word for it.)

(Guardian heads-up via Martin.)

UPDATE (9:35pm): Gah! You could even see where they planned to use it. Oh well.