WCrawford
Regular Member
I was reading a Dallas Morning News article on OCT and ran across this interesting paragraph.
"Moms Demand Action has happily circulated many of these photographs, which it lifts from the Facebook pages of Open Carry members. “When you see pictures of what it looks like, it points out how bizarre this behavior is,” said Watts of Moms Demand Action."
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140607-texas-open-carry-movement-raises-passions-threats.ece
It appears, to this non-lawyer, that MDA is using the works of others to raise money and advance their cause. Are the photographers compensated for their copyrighted work? Are the models compensated for the use of their images?
Or, is MDA, as I suspect they are doing, using the images they "lift" (read steal) without any permission?
"Moms Demand Action has happily circulated many of these photographs, which it lifts from the Facebook pages of Open Carry members. “When you see pictures of what it looks like, it points out how bizarre this behavior is,” said Watts of Moms Demand Action."
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140607-texas-open-carry-movement-raises-passions-threats.ece
It appears, to this non-lawyer, that MDA is using the works of others to raise money and advance their cause. Are the photographers compensated for their copyrighted work? Are the models compensated for the use of their images?
Or, is MDA, as I suspect they are doing, using the images they "lift" (read steal) without any permission?