From your profile:

"Hi I'm Jerry. I'm searching for friends & anyone who's into the creative business like graphic designs or multimedia design, comics, art, photography (my no.1 passion)..."

Well, Jerry, I think it's fabulous that photography is your number 1 passion.

I hope criminal law is your second...you worthless thief.

A number of the REAL photographers (AND models) of the work you've stolen and impersonated as your own on your profile have been informed of this and will likely be contacting you shortly.

Have a nice life!

What do you think?
I did say I was feeling snarky tonight, right?

Pat Thielen wrote:
Send it. Image thieves need to be put in their place. Did you contact the people he stole from? If not, I would strongly advice you to do so. And then send the note to him a couple days later.

   Send in the lawyers...

I've sent a message to Jacinta and to two photographers whose work I noticed from her port and her earlier work. Apart from that, I don't recognize the images.

I'm actually hesitant to send the message yet...not because I'm being nice (as if!) but because I feel that the affected parties deserve their shot before I send a message that may cause him to yank all their images before they see them.

MartinCoatesIV wrote:
I know one of the models he has shot with "Teye" she has the same pics with his tag on her site. I didnt see the anypics out of the listed port. So if he was stealing he at least lost the ones you mentioned.

So you're saying at least one of the shots is actually his? Interesting. This one is a example of the thievery:

The piss poor brushover of the original stamp is a dead giveaway. The image is actually by DarkVisions. Ben Heys' shot of Jacinta is also stolen.

Nihilus wrote:
The piss poor brushover of the original stamp is a dead giveaway. The image is actually by DarkVisions. Ben Heys' shot of Jacinta is also stolen.

Maybe Boytalk's idea of creative graphics is to put his name logo on other photos he likes as mock photo ads.

BCG wrote:
nihilus...you are the mattlock of the photo world!!!

lol

Those damm 65 year old punks!

I say we blast'em full of Polygrip

Nihilus wrote:
not because I'm being nice (as if!) but because I feel that the affected parties deserve their shot before I send a message that may cause him to yank all their images before they see them.

COUGHCOUGH screencaps, Nihilus. screencaps.

Nihilus wrote:
If  you have not seen the lovely Jacinta Lee before, do acquaint yourself with her. No, this is not a thread bashing her at all...but she's the reason I did a double take when I came across this:

http://www.myspace.com/bmd9

Her face was familiar...his collection of supposed "work" (aka 'Boytalk Photography') was not...and seemed rather fishy. So I went on a little reconnaissance mission and discovered the identity of two of the real photographers behind this poseur's showcase.

Send Myspace a Notice of Infringement (NOI). The NOI has to be from the copyright holder. Yahoo has a pretty good template that you can change to MySpace.

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/copyright/copyright.html

I have used that format several times and it has worked all the time.

Darrell

Synthetic Shadows wrote:
COUGHCOUGH screencaps, Nihilus. screencaps.

Yeah, I know.

He's since yanked the specific images I mentioned, although as the link to the image above is still active, it appears they are still hosted on his imageshack account.

Nihilus wrote:
So you're saying at least one of the shots is actually his? Interesting. This one is a example of the thievery:
(image snipped)
The piss poor brushover of the original stamp is a dead giveaway. The image is actually by DarkVisions. Ben Heys' shot of Jacinta is also stolen.

Hey, I recognise that shot!  I should... I took it.

I got a note from Nihilus about this one and chased it up.  "Jerry" was nice enough to include his full name on some of his watermarks... considerate, I thought.  I wrote a couple of e-mails to MySpace and ImageShack, then one to "Jerry":

"Jerry,

I'm glad you like my photography, but it is not only rude to steal it, modify it and claim it as your own, it is also illegal and punishable by Law.

The images in violation of my copyright are [...] I would appreciate your immediate removal of the offending pictures as well as an apology so that further action is not required.

I appreciate your prompt assistance in this matter.

Yours sincerely,

Dark Visions"

I think I was much nicer than Nihil, actually.  [chuckles]  Certainly a lot nice than I -wanted- to be... "Dear A**hole..."

Incidentally, the pics have now been removed from his MySpace site, but not from ImageShack, as yet.

Many, many thanks to Nihil for being decent, looking out for others when he had nothing to gain from it and generally bringing this to my attention and thanks also to Anjel Britt for giving me the link to this Forum.

Sorry for the length of this post, but I'm still fuming over this.  The thing that annoys me most is that he does this, gets busted, shrugs, takes the pics off and moves onto ripping off the next artist with no repurcussions whatsoever.

  Sometimes there is just no justice.

-= DarkVisions

Z_Photo wrote:
if those are copyright registered, the old boy can be stuck until he squeals and bleeds money

that's my answer as well ... why play nice? everybody should have a good lawyer and more to the point ... everybody should have a good standard letter to send to people who have stolen their images.

it's as simple as that, a few hundred to have a letter crafted, a few cents to print the offence out on paper and a stamp to tell him you're going to sue his ass if he doesn't remove the images immediately.