Oh oh. I hate when this happens and wonderful people like GOP Congressman Lamar Smith, author of the SOPA bill, are caught violating laws that they're promoting. Vice.com:
I decided to check that everything on Lamar's official campaign website was copyright-cleared and on the level. Lamar is using several stock images on his site, two of which I tracked back to the same photographic agency. I contacted the agency to make sure he was paying to use them, but was told that it's very difficult for them to actually check to see if someone has permission to use their images. (Great news, copyright violators!) However, seeing as they're both from the same agency and are unwatermarked, it seems fairly likely that he is the only person on the entire internet who is actually paying to use a stock image (and he'd be an idiot not to). So I took a look back at an archived, pre-SOPA version of his site.
And this is the background image Lamar was using. I managed to track that picture back to DJ Schulte, the photographer who took it.Oh the humanity. Go here to sign up and help identify other pro-SOPA hypocrites.
And whaddya know? Looks like someone forgot to credit him.
