Copyright Lawsuit
In September 2012, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was suing Degaudio's Public Advocate of the United States in Denver, Colorado, federal court over a mailer sent to some Colorado primary voters in 2010. The mailer included a modified version of their client's engagement photo, taken of them kissing with the Brooklyn Bridge as a backdrop. Their client is a gay couple married in a civil ceremony in Connecticut. The photo had allegedly been copied without permission from the couple's blog and edited to appear as if they were kissing with snow-covered pine trees surrounding them.
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