Looks like Sugar Factory is facing a bit of a legal issue.
Turns out the popular candy company loved by celebrities is being accused of stealing a photographer’s photo and selling his image on their t-shirts.
Photographer Ryan Doco Connors took to his blog to explain the situation. He reveals:
“A few weeks back it was brought to my attention that Sugar Factory recently started printing one of my photos of Kelsey Harker on a t-shirt of theirs. This came as a surprise to me as I never sold the company the photograph being used (nor had I sold any other company the photo)
When I approached the company regarding the copyright issue I was told that because they had changed the file 40% it was no longer considered my photo.
Today (Feb-18-2011) they removed the t-shirt off of the website.
Luckily I screen capped it when it was still on the site (notice it being sold for $28 and how after they were caught it changes from $28 to $10 lol)
I wrote this post to call-out and bring attention to major companies like Sugar Factory who don’t mind fucking the little guy so long as they don’t think they’ll get caught.
Well guess what, you got caught
What do U think about the whole situation?