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curious:

How did they get them without any watermark!?

How did you find these pics by searching on your name.
(By which I mean, how was your name picked up?)
Oh, or maybe the two I happened to click on weren't yours?

Just found another image.  I should probably stop looking because what's the use of my blood pressure going up further?  Reported is reported.   

Some have Shutterstock numbers on them (some in Spa series) , so I would guess he did purchase them, but I don't think that gives him the right to display them under his name, and allow others to freely download them and use them?

No, but there's a (moot) difference between misuse and outright theft.
They're not being freely offered: they're marked as copyright all rights reserved, and right clicking is disabled. Of course they can still be screendumped.

Some of them, if you right click to view other size, the other sizes aren't "right click protected" thus they could be downloaded

I'm not saying what they're doing is right, obviously, but image credits may not always be required; e.g. on iStock they're only required if the photo is used editorially. Over half of those I've found via GIS are not credited: however, I have more pressing misuses I want them to deal with before I start on non-credited images.
And yes, the implication is that the photos are the work of the owner of the photostream.

I just found a few that belong to someone I know. I will notify him.

So, if you guys have Flicker accounts why not just comment "Thief This Is Not Your Image" because that will attract attention if Flickr juts lollygags around in their usual do nothing style. Yet they are quick to suspend accounts of people who have done nothing wrong.

I have my name in the exif data under the copyright section and when I did my search google it showed 2 links with
(EXIF | Close-up Of Mexican Pork Carnitas | Flickr - Photo Sharing!) as the link title and the same for the other except different title. So I went to the link and it showed my image with all the EXIF data, thought maybe flickr was using it as an example for exif, clicked the image and ended up at the persons stream and found more of my images.

I am figuring they lifted them from my zenfolio site since the exif data was still on the image. I am assuming that shutterstock and the others strip alll data out of the image, I could be wrong here.

here is the link from google...
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22lynn%20don%20bendickson%22&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F64445673%40N06%2F6159941104%2Fmeta%2F&ei=m3j-ToStGaPKiQKB4PnvDg&usg=AFQjCNGVvIwjIxpIxxoXFn6lJTBAKlk1Lw&sig2=QP4CAF-7QZx7WwDHZqv8MA&cad=rja

when you click on the link you end up at flickr and you see exif data on the right with all my copyright info. click the image and you go to the persons stream.

-Don

It looks to me like a designer's archive. It still doesn't give him the right to post them on Flickr. I've notified Shutterstock about both streams (and this one http://www.flickr.com/people/ecoagriculture/ which has one of mine and probably other people's, too)

Yes, I saw that. To be fair, they do have a note on at least some of the shutterstock photos they have there (including mine) saying "copyright restrictions prevent the public use of this image" which makes me wonder why they are publicly using it and why they include it in their "free stock" collection. It's here, and I've left them a little message: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecoagriculture/2414593304/#

It's curious that they have access to my image but not, apparently, to my caption, since they have wrongly placed the scene as being in Malaysia when it's actually Sri Lanka.

Hi Sue

I also have always had the copyright info in my files but this is the 1st time I have found them via the EXIF  data.......It may be because I have my portfolio at my Zenfolio acct. and the EXIF data is intact there and the stock agencies most likely strip out that data. Also when I do a google search I put my name in quotes and also search different variations....first name, last name - middle name, last name - first, middle and last.....unfortunately at some agencies I used different variations of my name as I explained for my google search.

Well I am off to the higher elevations of the Sierra's with my dog in search some excellent still and video shots...learning to use my Nikon D7000 that I bought for video and my new Glidecam HD 1000 stabilizer and never without my trusty D700 for the stills.

-Don