| So someone sent me a link to a new Dan Debicella ad on You Tube this morning and asked me if I knew that my footage from the Greenwich DTC was in it. I was like "???? WTF ?????"
Watched the offending video. Sure enough, there, lifted directly out of my YouTube footage of Jim Himes' speech from the Greenwich DTC picnic in September, were clips included in Debicella's attack ad.
Had Debicella's campaign contacted me, the owner of this material to ask my permission to use it? No.
They'd just lifted it. STOLEN it, as we say in the intellectual property field.
See, as a writer, I make my living from intellectual property, so I take this stuff VERY seriously. I called Debicella's campaign this morning and asked to speak to his campaign manager. He was "unavailable". Sent a "cease and desist" email, just in case the campaign flack who answered the phone didn't pass on my message.
Never got a phone call back.
But what I did do was report the thieving bastard to You Tube, linking to my original video and showing exactly the place where they'd lifted the footage.
And, I'm pleased to say, that as of this evening:
No more slimy Debicella ad using stolen footage.
Think about it. Do you really want to send someone who thinks rules and laws are for OTHER PEOPLE to Congress? |
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