October 20, 2010 @ 12:21 p.m.
Once you let the Burlington Free Press or any other newspaper or media organization take your picture, get your name and town of origin and a quote from you, you have no control over how that media organization will use that information.
You have no control over where your picture and information will go in the paper. You have no control over what headlines or language get used to describe you. You have no control over the other headlines, articles and ads that the media organization chooses to put around the article and/or picture and information that are about you.
You have no control over what happens to your information on the website of that media organization, where new online ads are constantly showing up around the articles, even archived articles, for newspapers like the Burlington Free Press, and where the proprietors of the website can choose to move your article around to be where they want it to be in juxtaposition to other articles. If you get a lawyer, you might be able to do something about it, but that's expensive and time-consuming and it might not be as easy as you'd like it to be.
You have no control over whether the Free Press takes a picture that it uses of you in the paper tomorrow and reprints it next week and the week after or whenever it wants to reprint it, in a new article, with a new headline, surrounded by new ads and new articles and new headlines for other stories.
You can’t get any library to take the paper copy of the Free Press or any other newspaper out of its archives.
Once it’s done, it’s done.
Copyright L. Kochman October 20, 2010
Once you let the Burlington Free Press or any other newspaper or media organization take your picture, get your name and town of origin and a quote from you, you have no control over how that media organization will use that information.
You have no control over where your picture and information will go in the paper. You have no control over what headlines or language get used to describe you. You have no control over the other headlines, articles and ads that the media organization chooses to put around the article and/or picture and information that are about you.
You have no control over what happens to your information on the website of that media organization, where new online ads are constantly showing up around the articles, even archived articles, for newspapers like the Burlington Free Press, and where the proprietors of the website can choose to move your article around to be where they want it to be in juxtaposition to other articles. If you get a lawyer, you might be able to do something about it, but that's expensive and time-consuming and it might not be as easy as you'd like it to be.
You have no control over whether the Free Press takes a picture that it uses of you in the paper tomorrow and reprints it next week and the week after or whenever it wants to reprint it, in a new article, with a new headline, surrounded by new ads and new articles and new headlines for other stories.
You can’t get any library to take the paper copy of the Free Press or any other newspaper out of its archives.
Once it’s done, it’s done.
Copyright L. Kochman October 20, 2010