Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos

Phronesis writes "Photo District News is running a story reporting that three historic photos of John Kerry from the early 1970s, including the one used for the Jane Fonda forgery, were pirated from Corbis. The photographers who own the copyright on the photos are asking Corbis to use its fancy watermarking technology to find the culprit. Corbis hopes either to track the responsible people down using watermarks, or to invoke DMCA if the watermarks were removed."

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Evil, evil Jane

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Unless this is an attempt by a right wing organization to discredit Kerry, why waste your time? Especially when you are lying?

Well, it certainly is a right-wing attempt to discredit Kerry. No one else would think that associating Kerry with Jane Fonda would discredit him. To the Right, Fonda is that Bitch Traitor Who Went to Hanoi. But to mainstream America, she's just a has-been-actress who made some fitness videos.

And from that point of view, the photo isn't really a lie. True, Fonda and Kerry never actually stood on the same platform. But they both opposed the war, and that makes them both traitor-liberal-bleedingheart-(add your own insult here). It's a rhetoric based on stereotyping people you disagree with. Stupid, but standard political practice these days.