It seems the gay couple featured in the USA Next anti-AARP ad, the one that said the advocacy group for seniors was anti-troop and pro-gay marriage, is suing the group and their ad agency for $25 million for wrongfully using their wedding picture in the ad.
From Salon's War Room:
"Our privacy and personal integrity were violated when our wedding photo was stolen and used to portray us as treasonous, unpatriotic, and a threat to American troops," Raymen said in a statement released to the press today. "We have been harassed and humiliated by this hateful ad campaign and by the bigotry and anger it has generated against us nationwide."
Since the Portland Tribune, from whose website USA Next lifted the image, did not give its permission for such use, its editor, Dwight Jaynes had a thing or two to say:
"The photo, in fact, appears to have been lifted from our Web site with no regard for copyright issues or the personal damages it could cause, through commercial use, to those in the picture," Jaynes said in an e-mail Thursday to Mark Montini, whose Dacula, Ga., company produced the ad. "I will state the position of this newspaper as clearly as I can: That picture belongs to us and we take copyright infringement very seriously."
Here's the press release, from Raw Story.
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