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Heres some helpful advice: If youre a fundamentalist Christian, and youre writing a book about the Bible Principles of Child Discipline (such as You cannot raise the kids without a paddle), and youre looking for a perfect family to put on your books cover, you should do a little bit of research when picking a photo
That, of course, would be one of the families featured on the ABC sitcom Modern Family, a show that several religious groups love to hate because it features a homosexual couple (with an adopted child, no less) and was once touted as the next big thing for gay rights.
Someone tipped him off:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/08/14/this-christian-preacher-has-no-idea-why-his-ebooks-cover-is-unintentionally-hilarious/
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I hope he gets sued back to the stone ages (where, given his views, I think he'd fit right in).
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Several times a year I get a phone call from someone who received a threat letter and thought "I found it on Google" is a defense.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)Is it cruel of me to suggest I hope people continue to think that... ka-ching! (Just kidding, although negotiating settlements for people who believe anything on the internet is fair game is what puts food on my table, in part.)
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)No, I straighten out the clueless for cheap or free pretty often. When decent people do dumb things because, well, they're dumb, I don't get very caught up in what, if anything, they can pay.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)(in which case it isn't up to me - and it is usually with a RIAA demand letter for a couple gazillion bucks), or I run into them privately - in which case I do what I can to help out.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)What is this thing called an office, of which you speak?
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)But my spouse would be equally mystified about the concept of "office." She's gotten the volunteer of the year award from the local volunteer legal services group twice recently because most of her clients are pro bono.
ETA: But I know what an office is, since someone has to pay the bills.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)and sent a huge bill and got paid. The image said copyright right on it, but he cropped that part!
It seems they feel a little vulnerable when you catch them sinning and they want to make amends instead of having the thing go public.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)But that brings up one of the thing people who find copyright too much to be bothered with don't often think of.
Some artists are very closely tied to their work - and would not have chosen to let it be used by an evangelist-type. Copyright is what would have let you (if you hadn't been happy with money) force him to tear his work apart and take your work out. With few exceptions, you don't have to let someone use your work. Even if they've already stolen and incorporated it.
(And - FWIW - even if you hadn't put a copyright notice on it, it still would have been copyright infringement for someone to just take it.)
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)These idiots are so unintentionally comical.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)I can understand people not owning a television, but having no idea what appears on TV in the first place? What a dork.
Raine
(30,540 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)You know this guy probably has - a lot!
On edit: as I expected, it brings up an eyeful of spanking and discipline. The book seems to be the result of such research.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)Is that with the safe search switched on or off?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's with the "safe search off" on.
Wassamatta, can't read?
Turborama
(22,109 posts)That's how I managed to see the problem with what you wrote.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts)I'm a big fan, actually.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)discipline appropriately (requires extensive bdsm porn research), understand the depravity of these EVIL gay people and straight couples who actually have sex to enjoy it -- not to create babies for Jesus -- and so on. Just t.v. Is BAD. Internet is good as an important research tool and source of images. (sarcasm intended of course)