This time, they decided to rip off Tim Ireland at Bloggerheads.

You can see his response here.

For those of you you don’t know the history (and it’s a long one), just type in Zoo or EMAP in the search box on my site.
In one of the posts you can hear a recording of one of Zoo’s editors basically acknowledging that I created/composed the images they ran, but then of course they wheeled in the solicitors to cover their arses.
I’ve had at least 15 (FIFTEEN) images used by Zoo. Now I’ve blocked EMAP from seeing my images, they’ve moved onto other victims.

Publishers - for advice on how to rip off viral creators, you can go to the website NUTS2ZOO.

I chased Nuts magazine this week as they had not confirmed they had made a donation to Amnesty for the unauthorised use of my Camden Signpost Image (Now a postcard for anyone who’s interested.) Nuts promised to get back to me but nothing yet.
That’s now been at least two months since they first made the promise.

When I was talking with Nuts, I took the opportunity to advise them that they had also recently published in their ’spam’ page, an image by Peter Kennard

Some may have seen his original image on sale in Santa’s Ghetto.

The Nuts version just had a strip and a few words added at the base, saying “Try moving into Number Ten now Gordon!”

Will this piracy ever stop ? - Nope. The publishers are all covering for each other now. As soon as I mentioned this situation on the Guardian blogs in a PPA discussion, there was a rapid put-down posted by someone who could not properly conceal his identity (a pretty obvious username which was based on the address of a publisher of similar yoof mags.)

Dickheads, the lot of them.

And, as I’ve said before, it’s the big film companies who, through Zoo magazine, are offering inducements (in the form of prizes) for people to dick around with copyright and yet they’re the first to whine about their rights being compromised.

Very importantly EMAP and their sponsors are doing this on a commercial basis. The majority of people who are being ripped off are amateurs but the companies are sourcing free editorial and/or advertising on the back of this.

And do remember, for anyone who decided to send Zoo your own work via certain email addresses or even upload something on a blog you’ve created via their site, you have given them the rights to make use of it in any way they want to.
If they want to sell it, publish it anywhere, make a dvd, then you have given them the authority to do so.
Just check their terms and conditions below :

“User-submitted content

If you send any text, images, audio or other content to this website you accept that the files sent become the sole property Emap Consumer Media Limited and that we shall have the right to use that content and make it available to the public on this website and otherwise. All material must comply with the Online Forum rules, set out below.”

And

“Online forums and blogs - Rules of Acceptable Use
…..- You grant Zoo or Emap Consumer Media Limited the unrestricted right to use, reproduce, translate and distribute any material you place on the site.”

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