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<blockquote data-quote="JudeIscariot" data-source="post: 208995" data-attributes="member: 15275"><a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/10/17/pissed-off_photographer_lhota_stole.php" target="_blank">Pissed-Off Photographer: Lhota Stole My Gritty NYC Picture For His Pandering Ad: Gothamist</a>Now they're stealing photos, too!Yesterday, Joe Lhota's mayoral campaign released <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/10/16/new_lhota_ad_fear.php" target="_blank">a TV ad intended to scare people</a>&nbsp; into thinking that a Mayor de Blasio will let NYC descend back into&nbsp; 1970s- and 1980s-era violence and riots. One of the images used was by&nbsp; photographer Matt Weber, who never authorized Lhota's campaign to&nbsp; feature it. Weber tells us, &quot;I am a Democrat, but this is way beyond&nbsp; political as I have now been documenting New York for thirty years, and&nbsp; I'm concerned with people not paying for photos and even worse, stealing&nbsp; them. I am also very upset at having my work help someone I do not&nbsp; intend to vote for, especially since the image was stolen!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JudeIscariot, post: 208995, member: 15275"] [url=http://gothamist.com/2013/10/17/pissed-off_photographer_lhota_stole.php]Pissed-Off Photographer: Lhota Stole My Gritty NYC Picture For His Pandering Ad: Gothamist[/url] Now they're stealing photos, too! [i]Yesterday, Joe Lhota's mayoral campaign released [URL="http://gothamist.com/2013/10/16/new_lhota_ad_fear.php"]a TV ad intended to scare people[/URL] into thinking that a Mayor de Blasio will let NYC descend back into 1970s- and 1980s-era violence and riots. One of the images used was by photographer Matt Weber, who never authorized Lhota's campaign to feature it. Weber tells us, "I am a Democrat, but this is way beyond political as I have now been documenting New York for thirty years, and I'm concerned with people not paying for photos and even worse, stealing them. I am also very upset at having my work help someone I do not intend to vote for, especially since the image was stolen!"[/i] [/QUOTE]

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