Comments on: Mystery Beast Photos Withdrawn

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:29:47 +0000

You know, you could always pay for AP rights for Cryptomundo and run them to your hearts content.

By: animal

animal — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:21:26 +0000

Just goes to show that the love of money really is the root of all evil. Now I REALLY hope that animal isn’t the mystery beast. Then the pics won’t be worth a cent. Serves her right. And if she really has the “missing parts”, can’t she be charged with something like withholding evidence or some other legal action?

By: Maineman

Maineman — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:51:21 +0000

Oh my, there is that poor dead dog in Maine photo over at Earthfiles.

Somehow I don’t think that Linda Moulton Howe has paid or would pay a $100.00 for that photo, obviously once you allow your photos to go out into the public realm then they become available to anyone wishing to save them for whatever reason, demanding money for them after the fact, once there out there is ludicrous.

By: UKCryptid

UKCryptid — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:08:59 +0000

I’m not a skeptic of the photos, I saw an unfortunately dead dog like anybody else. As said above, there isn’t much market for dead dog pictures, even ones with slight deformaties.

By: mooppoint

mooppoint — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:05:39 +0000

And I just logged onto the Associated Press wire service, and found that three of the photos remain there. As a member of the AP, I have the right to download those photos and use them at my discretion in any of our publications, print or electronic media. Of course I won’t, because this sensationalization of a picture of a dead dog has gone far enough.

I suspect that the comments about the photographer not wanting to take on the “big boys” and take the path of least resistance is correct, and I commend Loren for handling this with grace and dignity. His reputation is more solid than ever after this episode, although I can’t say the same for all involved, particularly those wielding a camera during this fiasco.

By: mooppoint

mooppoint — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:53:04 +0000

greywolf, you are correct. Once permission is given to use photographs in a publication royalty-free, they are public domain. This woman relinquished her legal financial rights to those photos when she allowed the Sun Journal to publish them. She doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on now. (I’m not a lawyer, but I’m a member of the media, and have run into the situation many times.)

This also helps explain her insistence that the photos depict something other than a dead dog when the vast majority of the rest of the world see a “dead dog.”

If she can make money off the prints, that’s fine too, but this blog handled the matter in a professional and correct manner. In fact, she owes much of her notoriety to Cryptomundo, as one of its authors is a world-renowned expert who actually investigated the case.

This latest revelation from the photographer seems to move this from the “mystery” catagory to “hoax,” in my opinion.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:48:05 +0000

That is fine by me. I am tired of looking at that poor creature. I feel sorry for him, just a dog with no home who met a horrible end.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:52:05 +0000

Just keep doing the excellent job you have been Loren… it’ll take a lot more than Ms. O’Donnell’s photos of a dead dog to discredit you and this site, in any way! This just another fine example of “shooting the messenger”, ha!ha!

By: harleyb

harleyb — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:50:44 +0000

That’s just lowdown when the AP has the pictures everywhere but oh no not Cryptomundo someone might download them, please.

By: chrisandclauida2

chrisandclauida2 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:11:05 +0000

tell her she ought to buy some lube for the job the AP is giving her.

i also suggest she not put a down payment on anything she thinks the cash from the photos will buy her.