http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/front.htm Have you ever noticed that a lot of people in Internet ads are actually the same person? This terribly funny section of Rob Cockerham’s terribly funny cockeyed.com details the saga of “Alicia,” a lovely young woman whom Rob noticed kept turning up in ads for dating sites, shopping sites, and all sorts of other things. Read the “life story” he and visitors to the site sewed together for the cheerful “Alicia,” and find out what happens when word gets back to the woman in question. (Who is not, for starters, named Alicia.). — HSS Here's the site with the funny details: http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/spam/alicia/alicia.html "Alicia"
If you read all 3 pages you'll see he finally tracked her down and she sent him an email. Her real name is Libby Davidson.
She claims to be a model, but I did a search on her name and couldn't find anything related to her as far as images are concerned.
Man, she is freakin' hot...I'd definitely hit it... I know she says she's a model, but I wonder how much they get paid...I mean, she's practically promoting everything, and she's wearing the same damn clothes...Next time, she needs to just go topless and eliminate the confusion...
You'll probably start finding things about her soon when more people read about this story. Did you guys see some of the stretches that her pics were being used for? I don't know which was the best, the portable DVD player that was photoshopped onto her hip, or the Dominos Pizza paper ads.
Have you guys never used stock photography? There are libraries of millions of photos taken by photographers for commercial use. Places like Photos.com, iStockPhoto.com, Corbis.com and even GettyImages.com are repositories for images. Companies and individuals can pay to use the photos in commercial applications - websites, advertisements, etc. There are rules about their use - you don't own the copyright, you can only use them for specific things, you cannot re-sell the image alone - but anyone can use them and as many people/companies can use them as they want. Some image libraries run a couple thousand bucks for a few hundred pictures. Other services offer subscriptions to their databases. It just depends. There are some images that are restricted - private homes, images of celebrities or athletes, etc. - but photos like those in this story are referred to as "royalty free" meaning you pay a one-time cost to use them as often as you like. My guess is that this model took a huge number of pictures for a specifiic photographer in different settings as well as on a white background (so the background could easily be cropped out) and then they were added to photo libraries and the photographer is paid based on a contract he has with the company. It isn't really all that surprising to see the same person over and over. I see pictures all the time on websites that I originally saw in a stock photo library when searching for pics for clients.
Right, what Jeff said. It's funny the amount of times I come across a picture or 'model', I have used in a magazine ad, in other publications, billboards and even movie screen ads.
OMG!!!!! i followed the link and found out i used the same girl and guy dancing picture in my new website! i got it off a www.clipart.com , a royalty free stock photo company. do a search on dancing. heres what the original photo looks like
