Michael Yon photo in news again for wrong reasons
You may recall back in February when news broke that Michael Yon was involved in a copyright suit with the US Army over one of his unfogettable images from the Iraq War. After MSM folks like Jay Fitzgerald at the Boston Herald picked up on the story, we contacted Michael and started a blog swarm that was aided by links from Glenn Reynolds and many other prominent bloggers.
As a result of the blog swarm, the copyright battle that had gone on for seven months was settled by the Army within 24 hours. You can read about the entire incident here.
This is from Michael’s announcement that the dispute had been settled,
Thousands of readers might have learned about it from Jay Fitzgeraldâ??s piece in Tuesdayâ??s Boston Herald. Maybe it was the article Dan Lavoie wrote for last Sundayâ??s Southtown Free Press, or the press release issued by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Or when Kevin Whalen at Pundit Review called for blogger arms in an intransigent dispute with the Army over intellectual property rights. The growing volume of these voices gained the attention of people who could resolve the conflict.
Well, HFM, the international publishing outfit, has gone and used the image without approval. Even worse, they have put it on the cover of a vile anti-war rag.
Matt at Blackfive has the story and a few words of advice for HFM,
When you steal from a milblogger, your going to get busted!
Oh yea, he also has this,
HFM is (212) 767-6000.
Email Shock at shock@neodata.com and inbox@shocku.com.
A few weeks ago, we interviewed Matt from Blackfive and Michael Yon and we discussed the war on terror. if you’d like to listen to the interview, go to iTunes and search for Pundit Review Radio Podcast or click here
June 1st, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Interesting post i foung in this post…
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:44 pm
[...] Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 02:22 EDT Contributed by: BloodSpite Views: 5 The weekend of memorial Day was pretty eventful. Especially for free-lance photo-journalist, and former Special Forces jumpnaster Michael Yon.Seems one of Michael’s award winning photographs was stolen by a major magazine. He wasn’t paid for it. They didn’t ask his permission. They didn’t purchase it from him, nor was it authorised for use.Michael has since launched a legal battle with the said publisher, but he’s also asking for helpIn the last 24 hours MilBloggers have managed to have 2 major retailers, Tower Records and Borders, to remove the magazine from their shelves. Another totally removed everything by the Publisher They have complied once notified of the illegal use of the picture.So whats Mr Yon asking?Write, E-mail, Telephone, and have the magazine’s distributors cease and desist. The cover photo’s use is illegal, and any information those retailers may want is available at the websites I have linked previously in this post, but the main one is hereIts basic plagrism, and since Michael has been operating in the Middle East for the last 3 years 100% on donations from readers like you, this travesty is not just his, but yoursOther MilBloggers Firing down range on this issue include, but not limited too:Roger L SimonMichelle MalkinBlackfiveMudville GazzetteCastle Argghhh!Strange WomenEuphoricrealityOPFORWuzzademCao’s BlogHot AirGulf Coast PunditPundit ReviewCool Blue BlogWiz BangHalf a Pica DistanceMost Certainly NotCounterroism BlogSpotMaking Sense of JihadWeekend PunditForeign Object DamageJossipAnd if you really need a another incentive?Harpers is a French media Company.From Mike Yon:Mike Hammer, SHOCK?s editor-in-chief, was on CNN the other day, relishing his role as ?a thing of low brow beauty,? as he bragged to correspondent Jeanie Moos that ?We find images that most magazines shy away from.? Oh really? Then why launch with a cover photograph that ran on the front page of more than 50 US newspapers, was the Time Magazine online Viewer?s Choice Photo of the Year image, was selected by MSNBC for its 2005 Year in Photographs feature and that was submitted for a Pulitzer?Emphasis is mine.The picture and its original printing, can be found hereDon’t let this illegal use fall to the wayside. As Bloggers in a new media medium, the next picture stolen could be….yours. [...]
June 12th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Once again MilBloggers will unite to make the truth known. I get so sick of hearing about how this war is for “profits”. It seems to me that the ones making the most “profit” are the MSM and rags like SHOCK which use the war to generate advertising revenue.
Yon is Boss! Pundit Review is the Bomb!