Intellectual Property Theft

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hellschwartz: tableflipragequit: mechafaux: humansofnewyork: I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was...

hellschwartz:

tableflipragequit:

mechafaux:

humansofnewyork:

I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”

Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.

I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.

That’s so not okay!
Signal boost! I hope they get the message.

WOW WHAT BULLSHIT.

YOOOO.


Apparently, intellectual property theft and copyright infringement are OK if Corporations do it…