When WEVA International member Terry Taravella posted a message entitled “Another Website Thief” on the WEVA Advisory Forums last week, other WEVA members immediately jumped online to discuss and protest what has become a growing problem in professional wedding videography — the theft of intellectual property.

This is the start of a post on WEVA’s site that is a thinly veiled attempt to garner support for WEVA in their lawsuits versus the 4EVER Group. It starts off innocently enough talking about videographers who are having their video content ripped off. Some have had to place watermarks and use programs that protect against copying to distribute their content. Good information, relevant, and interesting, right?

Then they decide to slip in this line: “WEVA itself has had to go to Federal District Court in order to protect the association’s own intellectual property and seek permanent injunctive relief.” This is followed by links to three pages about their lawsuits against the 4EVER Group. After this obviously engineered tangent the text gets back to what it was supposed to be about: videographers.

Just so everyone knows, I take no sides in the WEVA vs. 4EVER Group sparring that is going on right now. I never have been, nor (most likely) ever will be affiliated with either group. This was just WAY too obvious, and I got a laugh out of it. Maybe you will, too. Reminds me of the butler from Mr. Deeds, “I am very, very sneaky!”

Read the WEVA article to see what I mean.

Want a bit of background? See this post.