As I said in the previous post, this year in May had the chance of photographing, with photographer Romy Fernandez Arroyo, an exhibition of jai-alai. Without doubt a great experience and I want to repeat, photographic opportunities offered by this sport are huge!
I also talked with the event organizers, Bilbao Jai-Alai, that showed much interest in seeing our photos. So a few days later we show them on my website and fell apart in praise to our work. And they liked it so much that they used some of these photographs without our permission or knowledge to advertise another event that was organized by them and could by seen, payment of 5 €, in September in Plentzia (near Bilbao).
And now, the “proofs“…
For the poster announcing the event and advertising leaflets:
it was manipulated (with questionable taste) the photography:
This photograph was also used, this time without any manipulation for elabaoración of black and white leaflets (photocopies). And to prepare the promotional leaflet:
addition to the previous picture (on the other side of the diptych) they also took the photographs:
I happende we went to Bilbao in the same weekend that they celebrated the spectacle of Plentzia and we could amazed observe how the city (or at least the old town which is where we were) was full of these posters, dyptichs and leaflets.
Photography by Romy Arroyo Fernández
We tried to contact them to clarify this issue, but two months later we are still awaiting a response… A performance that can blacken the name of a sport so beautiful.
The dissemination of photographs on the Internet is a double edged sword. On the one hand allow fans to show their work to others, on the other t you are up for grabs, and sadly, abuse photographs lightly skipping rights that protect them (Intellectual Property Law, LPI) is too common.
