Metal band Arch Enemy flooded with haatreacties after a quarrel with the Dutch photographer

The music, The Swedish metal band Arch Enemy this week in a worldwide scandal becomes involved. The band is a welcome guest at the Graspop Metal Meeting, declared a photographer of the festival Fortarock the war and has since been buried under the haatreacties. “They save completely miss the mark.”

What exactly is the problem? J. Salmeron, a photographer for an international rockmagazine, made last summer in Nijmegen photos of the action of Arch Enemy. Singer Alissa White-Gluz retweette on her Instagram one of the photos from the photographer, those that were found.

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But then also a merchandisebedrijf connected to Arch Enemy with the same photo on the get go, is for the photographer a limit is exceeded. According to him, is his material now used for commercial purposes, without permission and without a fee.

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A request for compensation (or a donation of one hundred euros to the DUTCH Cancer society) for a long time ignored. Until the management of Arch Enemy themselves, make themselves heard and claims that the photos of Salmeron by means of retweeting for any purpose may be used.

The photographer, himself a lawyer by profession, went back in the counter and explained by email that Arch Enemy of the wrong. For manager and former lead singer of the band Angela Gossow is the size now full. She informs the photographer that he is never more photos of Arch Enemy may make, both at festivals and at clubshows.