Congressman who wrote SOPA is a copyright violator

Mark Frauenfelder 10:33 am Thu Jan 12, 2012

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See the background photo on the archived, pre-SOPA version of US Congressman Lamar Smith's website?

Jamie Lee Curtis Taete of Vice says:

I managed to track that picture back to DJ Schulte, the photographer who took it.

And whaddya know? Looks like someone forgot to credit him.

I contacted DJ, to find out if Lamar had asked permission to use the image and he told me that he had no record of Lamar, or anyone from his organization, requesting permission to use it: "I switched my images from traditional copyright protection to be protected under the Creative Commons license a few years ago, which simply states that they can use my images as long as they attribute the image to me and do not use it for commercial purposes.

"I do not see anywhere on the screen capture that you have provided that the image was attributed to the source (me). So my conclusion would be that Lamar Smith's organization did improperly use my image. So according to the SOPA bill, should it pass, maybe I could petition the court to take action against www.texansforlamarsmith.com."

The Author of SOPA Is a Copyright Violator

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