Classy ad campaign compares stealing photos to rape

Listen, we're all for respecting the proprietary rights of the people who produce creative works. No one likes to get ripped off. But equating the unlicensed use of a photo to an act of rape is problematic on many levels. That's the implication of a new campaign by the Union des Photographes Professionnels, a French organization that represents professional photographers. The poster shows a photographer shooting an arctic landscape, bent over his camera, with a man in a suit standing behind him mimicking a sex act. Above the scene are the words "Each day, a photographer's work is used without his consent." Clever, guys, clever.