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If SOPA were law, the man who wrote it would also be violating it.
Here is Smith’s pre-SOPA website.
Here is the background image, made by DJShulte.
Vice.com discovered the images.
So I took a look back at an archived, pre-SOPA version of his site.
I contacted DJ, to find out if Lamar had asked permission to use the image and he told me that he had no record of Lamar, or anyone from his organization, requesting permission to use it: “I switched my images from traditional copyright protection to be protected under the Creative Commons license a few years ago, which simply states that they can use my images as long as they attribute the image to me and do not use it for commercial purposes.
“I do not see anywhere on the screen capture that you have provided that the image was attributed to the source (me). So my conclusion would be that Lamar Smith’s organization did improperly use my image. So according to the SOPA bill, should it pass, maybe I could petition the court to take action against www.texansforlamarsmith.com.”
Oh dear. Luckily for DJ, there are people out there like Lamar making new laws to protect the little guy against online copyright theft. Keep fighting that good fight, Lamar!
This TV ad is probably the most blatant propaganda piece I’ve seen in a long while. Instead of listening to this drivel, you should be telling your representatives to vote against garbage legislation such as SOPA and PIPA.
Stolen Jobs from Creative America on Vimeo.
This is how you treat your fans.
To launch our first single in eight years, AT&T helped us search YouTube for every instance of fans using our music without our permission. And then we rewarded them for it. This film is made out of clips from all those videos. Thanks for being a fan.
