Comments on: Virgin Mobile Cheap Text Ads From Flickr

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:36:00 +0000

To the people that say using Flickr photos makes Virgin look cheap, they are cheap. They never answer the phone, they never respond to emails, they only just added 3G, and many more reasons to show that Virgin are a terrible mobile company.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:19:55 +0000

People, do not share your pictures if you don’t want people to use them. Simple as that! If you decide share, read the terms and conditions (yes, the boring small print) and there will be much less surprises.

By: Dabitch

Dabitch — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:17:11 +0000

By: DrS

DrS — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:46:56 +0000

They are getting sued now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297545,00.html

By: B

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:16:09 +0000

They used the photos from a website which sold the rights to use the photos. It is all legal

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:35:36 +0000

It won’t look so cheap when they get sued for not using model releases for the people featured in some of the photographs

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:28:45 +0000

A cheap campaign for cheap texts?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:49:55 +0000

I think the folks who developed this campaign dropped the ball by using Flickr photos. No matter what happens Virgin is looking cheap in some circles for ripping off Flickr photos.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:54:36 +0000

Hi Gillian. Looks as though there's a few in the same boat as you. There's some discussion at Flickr Groups Central over the need for Virgin and Host to get a model release before using the photographs.

By: gillian

gillian — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:34:42 +0000

Virgin used my photo for the one captioned “you should be able to send texts…”. Except I only found this out because a user on Flickr in Australia commented on my original photo about it. But thanks for posting a photo of the billboard, because I hadn’t seen one yet.