Not Everyone Seduced By Spitzer Girl

Another update on the Eliot Spitzer prostitute photos...

Lots of newspapers, Web sites and TV shows ran those now-infamous MySpace photos, but not everyone took the bait. European Pressphoto Agency (epa), for one, had access to the MySpace images but decided not to distribute them. From an epa "Global Play Report" issued internally today:

"AP and Reuters could score today in the Spitzer scandal story mainly by using pictures of the alleged prostitute. They obtained these pictures via her myspace website. We refused to use these photos for legal and ethical reasons. It could have some repercussions for those who were using these images as several US attorneys labeled this proceeding as dangerous."

Getty Images and its subsidiary WireImage also appear to have resisted making the photos available through their wire services, even after AP and Reuters did.

Seen anybody else who faced competitive pressure to publish these images, but decided not to? Drop me a note.

Comments

[Greg]

If the young lady at the centre of the Spitzer scandal needs help paying legal bills she might want to consider hiring a copyright lawyer. I'm sure they could raise a rather significant sum of money for copyright infringement. I find it interesting the agencies who so freely took the photos from the web and distributed them for financial gain would more than likely sue anyone who did the same from their web sites.

[Brian L.]

Greg,

That's exactly what the AP did to me. Or at least, that's what they *wanted* to do to me. See:

http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1691-Snapped-Shot-Pwned-by-the-Associated-Press.html

http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1692-And-Thusly-We-March-On.html

Respectfully yours,
Brian C. Ledbetter
"Snapped Shot"

[Dee]

The young lady in question - and whomever took the photographs of her topless, on the beach, and cuddling babies - should jointly hire a copyright lawyer and go after the wires that published these images. Some of the photographs seem to be taken by semi-pro photographers (ie; topless and posed) while others are family snapshots or webcam photographs (ie, taken by Dupre herself). There are many people who just had their copyright pilfired for a juicy New York Post expose.