DAP member unhappy over illegal use of family photo - The Star

PENANG: An engineer is crying foul over the unauthorised use of a family photograph on a Barisan Nasional election banner during the general election.

Tan Lian Hock, a DAP member, was dumbstruck after a party member told him a photograph of his in-laws and daughter taken seven years ago had appeared on an MCA banner.

“I found out about this last Saturday. I do not know how they obtained the photograph to which I have copyright. I have lodged a police report,” Lian Hock told a press conference at Datuk Keramat assemblyman Jagdeep Singh Deo’s service centre.

Lian Hock, 45, said he was against the use of his photographs for political purposes and would be seeking legal action.

The photograph showed his father-in-law Tan Eng Tut, 62, mother-in-law Poh Lay Kee, 60, and his daughter Yin Wen, who was then two years old. Yin Wen is now nine.

It was also an award-winning photograph at the 2001 Lions Groups 110 Anniversary photo contest.

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