Monday, December 04, 2006

LiveJournal user alleges Jet stole her photo for their video

A user of internet journal website, LiveJournal.com, alleges that rock band Jet used one of her images in their video clip for Rip It Up without her permission.

"Waking up bleery eyed to "Video Hits" in Australia this morning, I saw the new Jet video clip "Rip it up," where I saw a series of my photos morphed with illustrator and put into the music video" writes AnnPenelope, the LiveJournal user at the centre of the claims.

"I didn't give anyone consent to use that out of my LiveJournal. I have the lowest self image ever already. Fuck! And hah, I recognized myself in a flash this morning on TV! So it's not like its supposed to be someone else."

A comparison made by AnnPenelope between the original photo and the image used in the Jet video clip is shown below.

A screenshot from the Jet video:

Jet Video Clip

The original photographs:

Photographs in Jet Video?

There are some striking similarities between the girl pictured in the photograph and the video, in particular the bow and pattern on the bra. The hair, stance and body structure also seems very much alike.

Comment is currently being sought from Jet.

AnnPenelope's journal is located at http://annpenelope.livejournal.com/