File under: Stolen! Boston Herald’s Inside Track swipes photo off the ‘Net
I ran a small handful of keyword searches that are near and dear to me in Microsoft’s new search engine Bing today and found that the gossip section in the Boston Herald, the Inside Track Gals, used one of my pictures on May 11 to illustrate some item related to the the Boston Celtics Dancers.
Google’s image search is pretty good at suppressing image swipers but the current incarnation of Bing seems to put a premium on recentness (Yahoo!’s image search is a butt load of Flickr images). Because of that, I imagine, the Herald’s sticky fingers bubbled to the top row on the Bing image search results.
The Inside Track used a re-sized version of the second photo of my suite of pictures of the Boston Celtics Dancers that I took during a game against the Atlanta Hawks almost two years ago. The caption has it that it is a “file” photo. I rather doubt that such a low-res image would end up in a photo catalog so I assume that “file” means “pilfered from some site on the Internet”. Here’s a re-sized and cropped screenshot of the Inside Track’s completely unauthorized usage of the photo:
Here’s the original photo:
