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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Sadstock on April 15, 2011, 19:45
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U.S. Post office used the wrong Statue of Liberty image on a new stamp, blames a "stock photography service". ::)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/us/15stamp.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/us/15stamp.html)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13101814 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13101814)
And that had to be an editorial image since the Las Vegas one should be under copyright. Does the post office qualify as commercial? 3 billion stamps should be one hell of an EL.
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Seems to be from Getty
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/200487873-001 (http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/200487873-001)
"No release, but this image does not require a release. This image is available for commercial use." Allegedly.
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Seems to be from Getty
[url]http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/200487873-001[/url] ([url]http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/200487873-001[/url])
"No release, but this image does not require a release. This image is available for commercial use." Allegedly.
Interesting. Nice find. At least the image was correctly described at Getty. Even though the statue is a replica of a publically-owned work I'd have thought it would still qualify as a 'work of art' in it's own right and therefore images would not be useable for commercial purposes without a PR. This story may have further to run.
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I particularly love this statement:
“We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway,” said Roy Betts, a spokesman. Mr. Betts did say, however, that the post office regrets the error and is “re-examining our processes to prevent this situation from happening in the future.”
Talk about a cya move. :D
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Did this guy rip it off from the other guy?
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock (http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock)
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Did this guy rip it off from the other guy?
[url]http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock[/url] ([url]http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock[/url])
No, impossible because both images have some details that the other doesn't have. You couldn't 'make' either image from the other. The angle of view and the shadows on the nose and eyes are staggeringly similar though.
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How interesting...I never thought that the USPS would use stock photography...I was thinking before this, that they hired photographers for custom work.
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Ah, I didn't look too close, but at first glance the one looks like a crop of the other... Maybe there is a metal pole right there with a platform to set your camera on!
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Interesting find. I just found this articlecabout vegetarian times references iStock.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/15/vegan-magazine-passes-off-pictures-of-meat-as-meatless-sparking-online-debate/?hpt=T2 (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/15/vegan-magazine-passes-off-pictures-of-meat-as-meatless-sparking-online-debate/?hpt=T2)
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Seems like the Post Office is going the 1984 route as they are now say that the stamps, introduced last December, have "no error in the artwork. The error was in the description, which we've changed to indicate was a replica." http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sticking_with_lady_Tv9a2kOV81fHP52MtQaT6K (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sticking_with_lady_Tv9a2kOV81fHP52MtQaT6K)
Their plan all along was to put a replica owned by a casino of an American icon on 3 billion postage stamps? :-\ Wow.
Also the Post Office press release confirmed that the image was by Raimund Linke, so its presumably this image. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock (http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock)
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/localnews/mi/2010/mi_2010_1209.htm (http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/localnews/mi/2010/mi_2010_1209.htm)
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Seems like the Post Office is going the 1984 route as they are now say that the stamps, introduced last December, have "no error in the artwork. The error was in the description, which we've changed to indicate was a replica." [url]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sticking_with_lady_Tv9a2kOV81fHP52MtQaT6K[/url] ([url]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sticking_with_lady_Tv9a2kOV81fHP52MtQaT6K[/url])
Their plan all along was to put a replica owned by a casino of an American icon on 3 billion postage stamps? :-\ Wow.
Also the Post Office press release confirmed that the image was by Raimund Linke, so its presumably this image. [url]http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock[/url] ([url]http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock[/url])
[url]http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/localnews/mi/2010/mi_2010_1209.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/localnews/mi/2010/mi_2010_1209.htm[/url])
There doesn't seem to be any mention in the newsroom (third link above) that the pic is of the replica.
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Seems like the Post Office is going the 1984 route as they are now say that the stamps, introduced last December, have "no error in the artwork. The error was in the description, which we've changed to indicate was a replica." [url]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sticking_with_lady_Tv9a2kOV81fHP52MtQaT6K[/url] ([url]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sticking_with_lady_Tv9a2kOV81fHP52MtQaT6K[/url])
Their plan all along was to put a replica owned by a casino of an American icon on 3 billion postage stamps? :-\ Wow.
Also the Post Office press release confirmed that the image was by Raimund Linke, so its presumably this image. [url]http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock[/url] ([url]http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/86079275/Workbook-Stock[/url])
[url]http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/localnews/mi/2010/mi_2010_1209.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/localnews/mi/2010/mi_2010_1209.htm[/url])
There doesn't seem to be any mention in the newsroom (third link above) that the pic is of the replica.
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Agreed. The artical says they have/will change it, but press release does not make that point. I included the link to show post office was crediting the image to Raimund Linke.
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Interesting find. I just found this articlecabout vegetarian times references iStock.
[url]http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/15/vegan-magazine-passes-off-pictures-of-meat-as-meatless-sparking-online-debate/?hpt=T2[/url] ([url]http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/15/vegan-magazine-passes-off-pictures-of-meat-as-meatless-sparking-online-debate/?hpt=T2[/url])
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Just heard this driving home from work on National Public Radio (NPR). A sort of repentant (in a sorry we got caught kind of way) VegNews editor about the misrepresentation of stock meat dishes as vegetarian ones. At the end he says they are setting a database up for vegetarian stock photography and notes that the interviewer could use these images if they needed to illustrate a story. Note that this is National Public RADIO!
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=135548327&m=135548610 (http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=135548327&m=135548610)