Facing lawsuit from AP

[fossywriter8]

Many a moon ago, a weekly put some of our photos of a football game one of its schools played against one of ours, using "Photos courtesy Podunk Shipping News" on their captions. The shooters threw a fit, and when the editor found out I had not given permission to the Weekly Fishwrap to use our photos we threw a fit too. The Fishwrap got a delicately worded nastygram from our publisher.

Worked at a weekly in Iowa back in the early- to mid-'90s. Another weekly from the next county over would often copy our pics from our county fair and run them in their paper using the "Photo courtesy of" routine. Our editor got pissed (some of the pics were hers) and got the publisher involved to put a stop to it.