Obsidian, it’s no problem. This is a Pandora’s box issue that needs nipping in the bud. Before she starts running around with the “ask me how…” I wanted to let her know how she screwed up. This isn’t about copyright laws. This is about capone-ing blogs one disagrees with.

If it was the letter of fair use that she was concerned about, you could have captioned the photo with, “Sorry photographer. No amount of posterize filter is going to make this face more friendly,” and that would have been okay.

What really struck me about the conversation is that she didn’t know whether to be the victim or the bully. If she wasn’t thought policing, then anything else you said wouldn’t and shouldn’t have mattered, just that the photo was used without her explicit permission.

I wonder if she’s going to sue Google now. LOL!