Go figure.
UPDATE:
Here's what the fuss is all about:
UPDATE:
Well, there is a fuss after all. Apparently this photo was supposed to be embargoed for just a wee bit longer and CNN is reporting that Hello! is going after websites that published the photo:
The celebrity magazine Hello! launched legal action on Wednesday against Internet sites that printed a leaked exclusive shot of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with their infant daughter.Ah, another media leak, and the photo that I've provided above appears to have been released against the wishes of the company with the rights to do so. The kicker is that someone from within the loop leaked the photo, not bloggers like myself that picked up the photo (which I've since taken down).
Just as People magazine announced it had landed exclusive North American rights to the first pictures of the baby, an image of the newborn Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt and her parents popped up on at least two Web sites as the cover shot for Hello!
"We were very shocked and horrified to see that this embargo has been breached," Juliet Herd feature editor for Hello! Magazine, which sells in Britain, Spain, Turkey, Russia, Dubai, Thailand and Greece, told Reuters.
"Hello! is taking legal action around the world to stop Internet sites and everyone else who may seek to publish," she said. "We are sending out legal 'Cease and Desist' letters to each of these sites."
"It is very difficult to control the Web and this proves how rampantly out of control it is. We have absolutely no idea how the picture was leaked," she said.
I have taken down the photo as a result, not because I've been contacted, but because it is the right thing to do.
UPDATE 6/15/06:
Since the pictures are now public, I've relinked the photo that started the whole kerfuffle.
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