Freelance photographer Gregory Mango regularly licenses his
photographs to newspapers. One of those photographs concerned
Raymond Parker, a main figure in a discrimination lawsuit filed
against the City of New York. The photograph was licensed to the
New York Post, which published it in an article in January
2017. Mango was given a "gutter credit": attribution
below the photograph.
A few months later, BuzzFeed published an article on the
discrimination lawsuit, using the same photograph. But BuzzFeed did
not ask for permission to use the photograph, Mango had not
licensed it to BuzzFeed, and—most costly for
BuzzFeed—Mango was not given any credit. Instead, gutter
credit was given to Raymond Parker's law firm, Fisher &
Taubenfeld.
