Our local free paper used one of t’wifes photos this week.
Nothing special but she took a picture of a large fallen tree over a main road with our lad (9) next to it for scale. It went on the facebook page of another local paper (not same company as this paper is published by) Tree was cleared before anyone else could be bothered to photograph it I guess and so they ran a little story on page 9 with maybe 4x6cm photo, credited to her but first we have heard of it! (Also the story is factually wrong by about three miles re: where tree fell over!)
It is in newsprint so they can’t just take it down -circulation of this paper is 40,000 or so copies per week.
My first thought is of course “how much money should she put in the invoice?”
And also is it worse that they print a picture without permission of our 9 year old boy? (knowing his age as it was on the original facebook comment that the paper lifted the picture from?)
I am also intruiged to see that when photos go on their website next week,any member of the public should be able to pay money to the paper to purchase a tea towel, set of placemats or whole poster with a picture of my son next to a fallen tree!