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Blogads' Henry Copeland has stepped in to save his ad network's largest affiliate, hugely popular gossip site, Perez Hilton. Copeland's firm is providing stopgap server space to Mario Lavandeira's site after the gossip publisher was switched off by his usual hosting provider. But Blogads, one of the first ad networks to capitalize on the boom in lightweight blog publishing, had better be careful. Lavandeira's nemesis is a photo agency called X17 which markets paparazzi shots, claims Perez Hilton, which runs defaced versions of these images, is infringing on their copyright. Blogads, which takes a cut of all Perez Hilton's ad sales and now also hosts his pages, will now itself be in the sights of the aggrieved paps.
Blogads in pap sights
Blogads' Henry Copeland has stepped in to save his ad network's largest affiliate, hugely popular gossip site, Perez Hilton. Copeland's firm is providing stopgap server space to Mario Lavandeira's site after the gossip publisher was switched off by his usual hosting provider. But Blogads, one of the first ad networks to capitalize on the boom in lightweight blog publishing, had better be careful. Lavandeira's nemesis is a photo agency called X17 which markets paparazzi shots, claims Perez Hilton, which runs defaced versions of these images, is infringing on their copyright. Blogads, which takes a cut of all Perez Hilton's ad sales and now also hosts his pages, will now itself be in the sights of the aggrieved paps.
11:32 AM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By Nick Denton
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