Spanish Photog Polices Weddings for Copyright Infringement
by Nicholas Deleon on December 18, 2008

Imagine you’re at your wedding doing the ol’ “smash cake into your wife or husband’s face” move. It’s a great day, all things considered. The sky is the bluest it’s ever been and birds are fluttering around in a non-threatening manner. (That’s what weddings are like, right? I’ve never been to one.) A man dressed like Spy vs. Spy is tiptoeing around the premises, capturing video of your Wonderful Day. Hmm, who invited him? A few weeks go by. Then, one day, a letter arrives in the mail. Apparently you owe a copyright agency tens of thousands of dollars for the unauthorized use of the song “Wonderful Tonight.”
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