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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. If you recognize any of the remaining images, feel free to alert the owners. I'm feeling particularly snarky tonight and have fashioned this message to send him: From your profile: What do you think? May 23 06 03:14 am Link 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... May 23 06 03:17 am Link Pat Thielen wrote: 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. May 23 06 03:25 am Link 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. May 23 06 03:28 am Link MartinCoatesIV wrote: So you're saying at least one of the shots is actually his? Interesting. This one is a example of the thievery: May 23 06 03:33 am Link nihilus...you are the mattlock of the photo world!!! May 23 06 05:27 am Link Myspace are pretty crap at dealing with copyright theft sadly. Out of the girls I have known it happen to some actually have had THEIR profiles deleted in responce. Others have had to send photos of themselves holding a bit of paper with their name and the date on to prove their identity. There is a guy on there who claims to own the Living dead girls. On his profile are friends claming to to model members of the living dead girls with pics also. Complaints were made and he is still there and still making the same claims as are some of the "model" friends he has(but the model freinds have the wrong details to actually be the real girls that are being ripped off) May 23 06 05:32 am Link If there is a complaint filed for identity theft I know for a fact it isn't tolerated at my space. It will be dealt with :-) May 23 06 05:39 am Link The "Contact Me" animated video sequence at the top belongs to a talented artist in Los Angeles. In any case, it's always polite to contact the person who's images have been taken without permission. I have a pretty vast presence under another name and I always appreciate emails when people see my images layered into ads, etc., without my knowledge or permission. Recently, some people at DPReview forums spotted one of my photos lifted from my other pbase galleries used as a main feature photo by a software company out of Hongkong. They were offering a software for mass high speed collecting and organizing of photos off the Internet like free stock photography, LOL. They were also selling a clone of Pbase and hitting on photograpers at similar websites to come to them with membership fees waived. Right. Then they use or sell the photos themselves, directly or indirectly. "Free material" Particularly in Asia, many people feel the "product" belongs to the person who sells it. Many people have no concern at all for where it comes from. They see something they like, "collect samples and information" then internalize it as their own brilliance, hard work and creativity. Kind of like plundering the rain forests and other natural resources ... the wood "belongs" to the guy who chops it down. Insulting the guy won't make any difference. Notifying the original artists of the theft is a professional courtesy. May 23 06 09:45 am Link Nihilus wrote: Maybe Boytalk's idea of creative graphics is to put his name logo on other photos he likes as mock photo ads. May 23 06 09:53 am Link BCG wrote: lol May 23 06 10:04 am Link Hell, if you are going to complain, complain here where the images are served from and screw MySpace for the complaint. MySpace are NOT actually hosting the images anyway, imageshack is: http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=email&q=abuse The two JL jeans images are: http:// + img530.imageshack.us/img530/6792/darkvisionsiibyjerrygo3mk.jpg img526.imageshack.us/img526/6350/catlikeibyjerrygovinden0fp.jpg Where ever this fool lifted them from he apparently didn't change the file names either. Studio36 May 23 06 10:23 am Link isn't this guy on myspace called Jerry ? do we know hes not the same guy ? May 23 06 10:34 am Link Been there , had that done. Neither Imageshack OR Myspace gave a nuts. Sorry. May 23 06 02:43 pm Link Been there , had that done. Neither Imageshack OR Myspace gave a nuts. Sorry. May 23 06 02:43 pm Link Good for you, Nihilus. And your message is priceless! LOL May 23 06 02:48 pm Link So he's a GWC but no film? May 23 06 02:51 pm Link I saw a few photos he took off of flickr.com also. What nerve! Send in the info and fry the guy! May 23 06 03:02 pm Link I had an imposter.Myspace took her down after I sent them a pic of me with my friend ID #. May 23 06 03:11 pm Link funny thing is on his profile he has a ton of pics that asre obviously by like 4-5 different people atleast none of them are the same style or clarity. May 23 06 03:14 pm Link Nihilus wrote: COUGHCOUGH screencaps, Nihilus. screencaps. May 23 06 03:17 pm Link Nihilus wrote: 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. May 23 06 06:17 pm Link Synthetic Shadows wrote: Yeah, I know. May 23 06 06:25 pm Link Nihilus wrote: Hey, I recognise that shot! I should... I took it. May 25 06 09:48 am Link Just trying to help. ![]() In the end, the best way to look at it, I suppose, is as the rudest, most tactless form of flattery to a photographer. May 25 06 09:57 am Link Justice ? indeed ! well, let's all make the world so that there is. i am a Libran...working for Justice for all!!!!!!!!! lol peace May 25 06 10:19 am Link if those are copyright registered, the old boy can be stuck until he squeals and bleeds money May 25 06 10:23 am Link Z_Photo wrote: 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. May 25 06 10:28 am Link |