I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
You want tax returns with that birth certificate too..?
And as an attorney and someone who publishes stuff herself, she should know that every work is subject to copyright, and that if she can't see where someone has granted her license to use it without asking, she can safely assume that running off with it and using it as part of her own material is infringement, plain and simple.
Especially as she is running Wordpress with a plugin which protects her writing from copyright infringements herself! From the source: !-- Copyright protection script by daveligthart.com --
That said, this is a clear example of the problems with the DMCA. Had the photographer contacted the website admin and requested the picture be taken down or permissions be negotiated before submitting a formal takedown, this whole situation may have been avoided (depending on just how crazy the woman is).
You know how much time is spend on trying to reach each and every website owner who is infringing on your copyright if you have a couple of hundred pictures being used by them? Following up on all these request can be a timely manner, where the DMCA just is a time saver for the right holder. I've been through the former a couple of times, and have website owners changed their credit to me fairly easily in a couple of times. However, the majority of the times you are confronted with a snarky email or no response at all. I even had a magazine claiming the copyright through their T&C's, while the picture had a clear watermark. After I contacted them with an invoice, they laughed it off. So I'm still working to take them to the cleaners. No, I think that Jay Lee had every right to send the DMCA request.
Kill Ugly Radio - Frank Zappa
