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Pictures ending up on a stock photo site...
It's been recently brought to my attention that some of my images have been posted on a stock photo site without the permission of myself or my photographers. The copyright information was removed, and they were posted as "royalty free images" for the general public. The photographer in question has perused the site quite thoroughly and found some more work by other photographers that he knows. I would urge everyone to check out www.photos.com and make sure that no one has stolen your images without your permission, and put them up on this stock site. I've taken down all my portfolios at the moment, until I can put hidden watermarks in every image in addition to the visible ones. May 27 06 12:38 pm Link Tell them to get the photos off their site, or get a lawyer. May 27 06 12:45 pm Link We are currently in that process. My point to posting this was to alert other photographers and models that their images may also have been stolen and posted to this site. May 27 06 12:50 pm Link There are 2813 pages of people photos-I can't go through them all. Besides, I doubt they took compressed low-res images off of MM. May 27 06 12:53 pm Link Don't be so sure. They took one of my portrait shots, and the only place I'd ever posted it was here. You can narrow your search options quite easily by putting in keywords "Female" "portrait" "Goth" "fashion" etc May 27 06 12:56 pm Link LadyLockeout wrote: Are you sure that the photographer didn't sell them? That makes more sense to me....unless it's a non-American owner of the business overseas. May 27 06 01:10 pm Link One more reason that supports not giving files away on CD's. May 27 06 01:13 pm Link I am positive. I notified him and he is in the process of contacting his lawyer and notifying other photographers whos work he has found on this site. May 27 06 01:13 pm Link I guess I have plans for Sunday after all. May 27 06 06:16 pm Link If that's true and more than one or two photographers have photos used without authorization - you should get together and have a class action case - get them shut down and make some money. Looks like they're base in AZ and NY so it shouldn't be that hard. Print out the pages and start the documentation. May 27 06 06:28 pm Link We're cataloguing everything we can find. I simply wanted to get the word out so other people could make sure that their stuff is secure. So far I haven't found anything beyond just my pictures, but I'm still looking. May 28 06 12:05 am Link Don't forget that to get statutory damages, you need to have the photos copyrights registered. I think you have 90 days to get it done. Check with your lawyer if they haven't told you that already. Register each single image, because they get assessed for each image registered whereas if you register them as a whole you only get one count for all your images. May 28 06 12:54 am Link Thanks very much. I'll mention that. May 28 06 01:14 am Link Leonard Gee Photography wrote: This is not a certifiable class by any stretch, even if there were tens of photographers involved. May 28 06 01:16 am Link well I know this model looks familiar. Not sure if it's from MM or not. http://tinyurl.com/o8th8 May 28 06 01:35 am Link |
