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Real Estate Agent Stole one of my Flickr Images
Kone:
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--- Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on December 15, 2009, 21:20 ---Stinkin bastages.
This is why I avoided Flickr for a long time. There's no mistaking he stole it because security is set to give the spaceball.gif so it's a screenshot or something.
Anybody ever have to deal with this? What have you done about it?
Plus some designer just hit me up for using an image in return for "a nice placement of my name on the new site". Yippie. I responded with a quote.
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Hi Paulie
I had been in a similar situation before where a guy on FLICKER stole my image.
Link for my image and my comment.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cafecathi/3839201933/#
The moment I found out, I replied in the comment area asking him to take off the photo, he never did. Therefore, I sent an email and a letter to Yahoo.com and they never responded. My image is still under his name. I don’t think there is much you can do unfortunately unless you have some sort of copyright and that you can legally ask him to take it off.
Kone
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Cafe 07 has an iStock watermark right on it and the same image is on Dreamstime. Can't be more obvious.
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But Yahoo has never done anything to protect our rights.
Many photographers complained about it, and they do not have time to respond to everyone.
Kone
click_click:
--- Quote from: madelaide on December 17, 2009, 19:17 ---
--- Quote from: click_click on December 16, 2009, 17:48 ---This week alone I found four (4) Zazzle members using my images. Shall I really just let them be and start educating them about what they did wrong or try to get some licensing fees that they should have paid in the first place...?
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I am not defending infractors, but its is difficult to get more than just having them remove the infringing item, right? And if the image is on micros, the fine for infringement is probably small, or not? Is it worth the legal problems? What if the infractor is abroad? BBC News still shows the watermarked thumbnail of an image of mine from StockXpert, even if I reported it to StockXpert long ago. If BBC is not worth sueing, what can you get from a small business?
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Madelaide,
I don't think that you defend violators either but we must insist and fight for our right!
Just because an image is sold on the Micros doesn't mean that the damage that has been done is also "small". Neither does it mean that it's "not worth" pursuing the violation.
When I claimed the royalties for a stolen image from Zazzle I did get paid from them so yes it was worth the effort. Maybe it's not working every time like this but I want to encourage everybody not to look away and enforce their royalties and their copyright.
I'm not a lawyer but I recommend to contact one in England and ask for a quick response on your issue with the BBC. Thank god we have email these days which make it quite easy to contact anyone. It's free and it doesn't hurt - worst thing they can say is "No".
Usually lawyers quickly listen up when big companies are involved in a copyright situation. I'm sure there will be some lawyer willing to look into your case.
I've had lawyers in the US take my cases on a contingency basis for less than what your problem is.
Furthermore it is highly recommended to register your copyright. That can make it a lot easier to find a lawyer who would take it on contingency.
annabelle496:
--- Quote from: Kone on December 15, 2009, 23:37 ---
Hi Paulie
I had been in a similar situation before where a guy on FLICKER stole my image.
Link for my image and my comment.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cafecathi/3839201933/#
The moment I found out, I replied in the comment area asking him to take off the photo, he never did. Therefore, I sent an email and a letter to Yahoo.com and they never responded. My image is still under his name. I don’t think there is much you can do unfortunately unless you have some sort of copyright and that you can legally ask him to take it off.
Kone
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Hmmm, thats odd. Beginning of this year, I caught a user off a social site I was using, Photography-Network, steal about 20 of my photos and numerous photos from other users and post them on flicker.
I posted comments in each of tthe photos calling him a thief and placed links to my photos, wrote my site whick deleted his accout. THan I files a complaint on Flickr, there was a link available for copyright issues leading to thier legal dept. and gave them all the links to prove it. THe images were removed.
THan I followed up where he lived and posted .
II have since found him on flickr again, but, he is keeping it clean.
click_click:
--- Quote from: annabelle496 on December 19, 2009, 12:54 ---...Hmmm, thats odd. Beginning of this year, I caught a user off a social site I was using, Photography-Network, steal about 20 of my photos and numerous photos from other users and post them on flicker.
I posted comments in each of tthe photos calling him a thief and placed links to my photos, wrote my site whick deleted his accout. THan I files a complaint on Flickr, there was a link available for copyright issues leading to thier legal dept. and gave them all the links to prove it. THe images were removed.
THan I followed up where he lived and posted .
II have since found him on flickr again, but, he is keeping it clean.
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Good job! Well done!
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