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Philly DA Uses Copyrighted Photo As Twitter Background, Gets Sued

Chris Gampat
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08/08/2013
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Last Updated on 08/09/2013 by Gevon Servo

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A Philadelphia DA might be in court soon, and this time around he may be the accused. Photographer R. Bradley Maule is suing DA R. Seth Williams because he used one of Maule’s copyrighted photographs as his twitter background. The photo came from Maule’s blog: Philly Skyline and was first discovered in April of this year.

Now here’s the better part: when Maule asked Williams to take down the photo in an extremely friendly manner over lunch, Williams was told that the copyright accusation was, “silly bullshit.”

According to ArtInfo, “Williams ‘claimed that there was no such photograph on the defendant’s Twitter webpage, because the defendant was looking at his Twitter account on his smartphone and there was no skyline on his smartphone rendition of his Twitter account,’ Maule’s complaint says. ‘Undersigned counsel for the plaintiff then asked defendant to look at his Twitter webpage on a ‘regular person’s computer,’ to which defendant replied that he didn’t have access to a ‘regular person’s computer.’

Over the last two years, Maule has accused many folks of using his images. Amongst those listed are The Inquirer, Gyro Advertising, The Colbert Report, Modern Steel Construction Magazine, and Family Dodge. And he recently sued all of them. But in regards to this case, no specific monetary amounts have been cited.

 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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