In the wake of the uncovering of the (allegedly) unlawful use of her image on the Net, we wish to re-assure Melissa Theuriau that our site has never used her image to promote anything that she was not related or contracted to.
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However, various advertisers on this space might have used Melissa’s perfectly proportioned features and dynamic attitude in still pictures to promote products that our site has no direct link to. (Actually, if we click on the active adverts inserted in our site, we get penalized.)
As a sign of recognition for her image being (ab)used in a page hosted apparently by us, Mockoblog is happy to donate to Melissa 100% of its earnings from advertising not only on that page, but for the whole last 12 months. This is no offence. We expect Melissa Theuriau to donate this money back to us, as it wasn’t our fault, either. The sum we gathered from our TOTAL adverts is around US 0.66 in the past year, in huge contrast to what others WILLINGLY using her image have made.
Please check:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4138888/The-face-that-launched-a-global-ad-scam
and, Melissa, we are sorry we can’t do much more to put this right. It’s not your fault you look the way you are.
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