Thursday, March 9, 2017

Having manners doesn't cost anything

On Wednesday, I received two candidate mailers--Commissioner Christopher McVoy's and Omari Hardy's. Both had nice photographs and both photographs are mine.

The campaign of Christopher McVoy called me to let me know that Chris liked my photo taken at John Prince Park and asked if he could use it on a political mailer. Of course, I said "yes." If you ever notice Commissioner McVoy on the dais, he is always polite and respectful.

Omari Hardy, on the other hand, used a photo I had taken of him at City Hall that was used on a mailer sent by the Professional Firefighters/Paramedics of Palm Beach County Local 2928, Inc. No one called me. No one asked for my permission. It was grabbed right off my blog.  Although the photo was taken in a public place and no permission is necessary by the subject, Mr. Hardy, for me to shoot it, he still did not object to my taking the photo. He was giving his consent for me to 1) take it and 2) to publish it. Normally it is sufficient that when using someone's published photo that appropriate consent is given...it wasn't when my photo appeared on this mailer. A simple phone call would have sufficed.

Omari Hardy's mentor, Scott Maxwell, did the same thing in 2016--grabbed a photo right off my blog without saying "boo," "thank you," or "kiss my @#$."

I asked AJ O'Laughlin of the union how he had acquired the photo. He wouldn't tell me. He suggested that I was supporting someone else and I told him that had nothing to do with it, that it was my property. "See you in court," he said. Mr. O'Laughlin, who describes himself as a "simple fireman" says he will not have any discussion with me on this without an attorney present. At that I ended the discussion.

Some people in positions of power don't get it nor do they care about common courtesy.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bottom line, whoever pushes the button to take the photo owns the photo, and it's automatically copyrighted.

No one else has the right to use it without your permission

Anonymous said...

This union gave $1000 to hardy and produced this mailer that cost thousands. Couldn't they have taken their own photo instead of stealing one from a senior citizen's blog?

Lynn Anderson said...

Thanks for mentioning "senior citizen." :)
That's it--senior abuse. LOL

Anonymous said...

You had to throw in "senior citizen",didn't you? Oh well, the good die young and you'll be friggin near immortal.
To the blog issue: Churches can't back candidates or they lose their tax exempt status. Why can first responders like Fire fighters and police?
If Omari will steal a photograph, what else will he steal? I wouldn't vote for this guy if you paid me to.
Toby's Tires,Lake Worth

Sean said...

They always endorse the wrong candidates.

If the candidate sucks up to them, they are conned into an endorsement and a contribution.

Hopefully, Hardy, only a 2 year resident will lose.

Vote McVoy !!!!!

Sean said...

Firefighters always endure the wrong candidate.

Hardy has been in Lake Worth only 2 years.

Christopher has been here 20.

Vote McVoy March 14th !!!!!

Anonymous said...

never could figure why the police and fire would support one candidate over the other.they take tax money from all of us.i find it offensive the fire fighters gave my money to someone I am agare they lobbying for somethingainst.

Anonymous said...

Its not the same photo Lynn. Different angle, different background. Put your glasses on. We get you want McVoy to win but have enough integrity not to make up lies about Omari. Why didnt you put the two pics on your site side by side? I'm looking at them and they arent even close. Desperate

Lynn Anderson said...

@8:06. I don't really like people coming over here and lying. This is my photo so I don't know what photo you are looking at.
I didn't put the photos side by side because I don't want to give him any more advertising than necessary.
So, take a hike.

Lynn Anderson said...

This is the blog
https://lynn-a.blogspot.com/2016/12/omari-hardy-candidate-for-district-2.html

Anonymous said...

Fake News

Anonymous said...

I put the photos side by side. Same guy, same suit, same background, same angle, same smile. YEP. SAME PHOTO! They stole it. What pieces of sh**. I'm serious. They spend $1000 on this mailer and couldn't be bothered to go get their own photograph? I agree with the commenter above. Why are the firefighters even endorsing candidates? This is kind of scary. Are they not going to get to my house quickly in the even of a fire if I have a sign for the other candidate in my yard? Public safety and politics Do Not Mix. And who is this AJ O'Laughlin character? Sounds like a total jerk. They need to pay you for the photo, Lynn.

Lynn Anderson said...

@8:37...the only people into fake news are liars and we know who does that with impunity including print news publications.

Anonymous said...


Firefighters used the same photo Omari is using for his door hangers and it is not the same photo. Nice try.

Lynn Anderson said...

The Firefighter's used two photos. One was MY photo. The other was the same one he used on his door hanger--two DIFFERENT photos.