![]() ![]() ![]() That includes, apparently, Australian ad executives holding a casting call for exuberant young Americans. With its extensive cataloging, the site allows users to search through strangers’ digital photo albums for topics, faces or locations that interest them. ![]() The site simultaneously has become a global clearinghouse for images at last count, it had more than a billion of them. ![]() Much more than a virtual attic for old photographs, Flickr has flourished as a gathering point for friends and family who want to keep in touch with one another’s lives - a social network with photographs as the organizing principle. The image had been uploaded to the site by the photographer, Justin Ho-Wee Wong, Alison’s church youth counselor. The conduit for this unusual bit of cultural exchange, it quickly emerged, was the Flickr photograph-sharing service, which is owned by Yahoo. Her image is accompanied by a mocking slogan - according to the ad, Alison is the kind of loser “pen friend” (pen pal) whom subscribers will finally be able to “dump” when they get a cellphone. On the billboard, Alison’s friend has vanished and so has the Adidas logo on her hat. Weeks later, that photo is posted online and catches the eye of an ad agency in Australia, and Alison appears on a billboard in Adelaide as part of a Virgin Mobile advertising campaign.įour months later, she and her family are in Federal District Court in Dallas suing for damages. One moment, Alison Chang, a 15-year-old student from Dallas, is cheerfully goofing around at a local church-sponsored car wash, posing with a friend for a photo. THIS is no “star is born” story for the digital age, though at first it may seem like one. ![]()
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