In camera
That photo of David Cameron and Boris Johnson while they were attending the 1987 Adam and the Ants convention has been banned. The photographers have withdrawn it for ‘commercial reasons’.
I know how they feel. I recently had my copyright on a photo breached and the moral rights of its subject violated by an unmitigated arsehole who neither asked permission nor offered credit or financial recompense. Some people get awfully uptight about this kind of thing.
Unfortunately, I can’t afford a lawyer and so have no choice other than to stay in bed, float up stream. See, poverty can be quite relaxing some times. Some of us have to resort to cheaper methods of making people laugh.
Posted on March 2nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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Much as I would love to sling mud at “Dave” and Boris, this is a very silly story. I saw Michael Crick trying to whip up a conspiracy theory about this on Newsnight last night and it sounds like twaddle to me.
Of course it’s for commerical reasons. Nobody who photographs students would stay in business for very long if their customers thought that the company would later embarrass them with the photographs, or exploit them for massive profit.
However, it’s always worth pointing out that contrary to public image, “Dave” is a toff of the toffermost type.
Yep, I don’t have a problem with the photographer asserting their rights. I just think that every time David Cameron chooses to pontificate on yobbery we should be reminded that he spent his late teens/early twenties as a member of an exclusive group whose idea of fun was smashing things up and basically beings a bunch of twat.
Because he was at Oxford, it was called a club. If him and Boris had done it on an estate, they’d have been called a gang.
Pointless personal anecdote alert:
I was once wandering down a pleasant back street in Cambridge of a quiet Sunday morning when there staggered past me a bunch of mostly-drunk, partly-hungover drinking club toffs. They were, as you might expect, loud, obnoxious and aggressive. A nearby man working in a whole in the road said to me, in a jokey/exasperated sort of way, “just think, they’ll be running the country in a few years”. And, indeed, they probably are.
My time at Oxford overlapped with Camerons, though my circles and his were rather different. I do remember that in my college there was a posh dining society roughyl equivalent to the Bullingdon Club, though probably not quite so wealthy, called the “Goblins”. On one occasion after a dinner they went on the rampage through the city centre and their activities included overturning a car.
The subsequent punishments included no prison sentences and no expsulisions, either permanent or temporary. I believe though that they were required to report to the police station on a particular day which meant they missed the Varsity Match.
I am not making this up.
Many years later, having lived and worked in the city for a long time, I happened to be walking past my old college while their ball (the “After Eights Dance”) was on. A number of dinner-jacketed individuals were attempting to get in by storming the gates and had even improvised a battering-ram. This was being watched by a couple of locals who recognised me from the football and opined that if anybody from Blackbird Leys had engaged in such behaviour, their feet wouldn’t have touched. Indeed not.
Still, as Detective Sergeant Wakefield said in The Cops:
“First rule of policing. Never fuck with the middle classes.”
And these weren’t even the middle classes.
[...] Filed under: Blair, Photography, Politics — notsaussure @ 1:03 am Justin, at Chicken Yoghurt, sympathises with the photographers who’ve withdrawn, ‘for commercial reasons’ [...]
Having been the victim of copyright theft, I’m inclined to take Jackie Danicki’s stance on this one. My solution though was less histrionic. I contacted the thief and asked politely for the image to be removed. When this didn’t work, I contacted the site owner, who removed the image and banned the user.
I also ditched the creative commons copyright notice (that the thief had breached) and replaced it with an “all rights reserved” notice on the front page of the blog. Also, all images now have a copyright notice. If people want to use my images and ask nicely, they will find me accommodating.
If you contact the owners of Blogger, then they will do the necessary - if you are sufficiently bothered, that is.