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BuzzFeed Art Director Sends CEN Frozen Waterfall Usage List For Invoicing

This 2 May 2013 email records BuzzFeed’s art director sending CEN an itemised usage list for three CEN image files used in April 2013 under the subject “Buzz Feed April 2013 Usage: CEN”. The email asks CEN to invoice BuzzFeed for the usage and lists three “Frozen Building Waterfall” images — CEN_FrozenWaterfall_02.jpg, CEN_FrozenWaterfall_04.jpg and CEN_FrozenWaterfall_01.jpg — at USD 40 each, for a total of USD 120. The document is significant because it is a direct usage and invoicing record showing BuzzFeed purchasing CEN material in the ordinary course of editorial business two years before publishing its later allegations about CEN. It should be read alongside the related April 2013 licensing correspondence for the same frozen-waterfall images, as together they show the practical sequence from picture request and licensing terms through to itemised BuzzFeed usage and invoice request. In the wider evidence chain, it helps document that BuzzFeed was not merely an outside critic of CEN, but had itself used and paid for CEN material before later presenting CEN as an unreliable supplier of viral content.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – CEN Case Documents

europe Media newsX Community Interest Company Published 3 May 2026 at 13:43 Source: 16 July 2016

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