Photojournalist launches online campaign against Ed Gillespie over stolen image

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https://thinkprogress.org/photojournalist-launches-online-campaign-against-ed-gillespie-over-stolen-image-d5db2841981d/amp/

Yvette Cabrera at Think Progress

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Spanish photojournalist Pau Coll Sanchez launched a social media campaign on Monday targeting Republican candidate for Virginia governor, Ed Gillespie. Coll is demanding that Gillespie to stop using his work without permission and to pay him what he’s owed.

Gillespie’s campaign appropriated one of Coll’s photographs in a political attack ad about the MS-13 gang, ThinkProgress reported last month.  

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Coll and his photo agency, RUIDO Photo in Spain, told ThinkProgress that after contacting Gillespie’s campaign and being ignored, they decided to launch a public campaign demanding that Gillespie stop using the photograph in the ad, which has been broadcast aggressively on television commercials since it first aired.

In the ad, which began airing in mid-September, a narrator warns Virginia residents of the menacing threat of the MS-13 gang while Coll’s photograph, stamped with the words “Kill, Rape, Control,” flashes across the screen. Gillespie’s commercial tries to pin the increase in MS-13 violence on his Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, and criticizes the democrat for his vote against a Virginia billthat would have banned sanctuary cities, which do not actually exist in Virginia.


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1. Start costing these thieves a lot of money

And maybe, just maybe, they'll stop stealing other people's work for their stupid-ass political campaigns.

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2. What a sick idea for a campaign ad... follows Trump think on the 'other'.