Ladd asked me where she could send the bill for using the picture and I politely responded that she could send all my bills to the White House.

I have walked a mile in those moccasins.  That’s classic.

I guess everyone is looking for extra revenue these days, even if it means charging for items in the public domain.

Maybe they’ll write it off as “bad debt expense” on their taxes.

I was pretty shocked when I got the email. I’m disappointed to say I haven’t got a response yet to my response.

I hate to spoil the ending, but the next step is about 1000 word email.  It will be super secret, “off the record”, and not for publication.  In it will be a full legal desciption of copyright/fair use expertise and a treatise on journalistic ethics.  At the end, it will be cautionary in nature because she will state that she’s not the “actionable type” looking for a lawsuit.

I had to dust my last one off.  It’s been a while.

What I am trying to figure out is if JFP has been using the same FEMA photo so long they thought it was theirs. It can’t be two different pictures the way I see it. But this just my guess.

she used a cropped version from a fee source and when seeing someone else use another cropped version from the same source wants to somehow lay claim?

wow

should have been “free source”

I honestly don’t see how anyone, especially a person familiar with the tenets of real journalism, can take the JFP seriously.