leicaglow Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 I found some photos of mine on another photog's website about 6 months ago. After the flattery wears off, the anger sets in. That's when I really pared down the images I leave online anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGTrask Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 Did you manage to get them removed Michael? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephine Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Dear Gerard and Andrew, Thank you very much for your message. This image with copyright "Josephine 2006" is really my. I think that very difficult remove the photo's from their site and if we will find how to do this it will be very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGTrask Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 You are very welcome Josephine. Have a look at this article (http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/), I found it to be very useful in explaining what to do when this kind of thing happens. I have written to the owner of the website and given him 5 days to remove or pay for the use of my picutes. If this fails I will write to their Internet Service Provider who are obliged to take action. I hope this helps, Regards, Andrew.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerardo Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hi Andrew I have just stumbled on another owner of one of the Photo's. The following http://www.worldcolleges.info/photography/largeimage.php?name=10&id=6 belongs to RinaH. I have mailed her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rina Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Holy sh...... Strange, I knew that that happens. But when you are the one... That makes me kind of sad also. Will take steps as prpoposed. Thanks a lot for your information Gerard ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerardo Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Hi I wrote an email to the site a few days ago and jus received this response Dear Gerard this site open site for student community.... pl sent me u.r copyright photographs...immediately remove .. if u interested posted u.r photographs ... thanks, I think they are saying if you idetify your foto's to them they will remove them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGTrask Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Thanks Gerry, I wrote to the guy for the second time on the 4th Jan asking that he either remove or pay for the use of my pics, but didn't hear anything back. I've now sent him (today) a "Cease and Desist" demand giving him a further 48 hours to remove the materials, threatened to commence legal action and to send his ISP a "Take down" notice. (Under ?512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"), ISPs must remove Web sites or other online material once they receive a "take-down" letter from a copyright owner saying that the material is copyright-protected. ISPs can be liable for copyright infringement simply for hosting this material, unless they comply "expeditiously" with these take-down letters). Cheers, Andrew.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerardo Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 That should get his atteention but I can't understand why I have received a response and you haven't. The Mail address I used was applegrafics@hotmail.com. Good luck anyway. I have also sent details of this response to as many people involved as I could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGTrask Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 I'll keep you updated on developments as they occur... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerardo Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Andrew, I have had an email form Rina H and when she sent them the URL to photo.net showing her picture they immediately responded by removing it from their site. Looks like they are being responsive so far. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGTrask Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 Thanks Gerry, I'm still waiting for a response as yet and yesterday was the third time I wrote to them. I sent my mails to all 3 email addresses on the "Contact us" section of the website. I did notice today that Rina's picture had been removed, which is good news; all the rest are still there though. Maybe my mails are stuck in this guy's spam filter or something. I'm sure it'll get sorted in the end, one way or another. Cheers, Andrew.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGTrask Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 Just wanted to mention that my photo's have now finally been removed from this website. It does look he has topped up his portfolio other shots though and many of the other stolen shots are still in place. Regards..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerardo Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Glad it's orkd out. I for one will be keeping an eye on this guy's site. Best Regards Andrew (an All) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photovision Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 There is a photo tracking software. Digimarc imbeds into the photo information that can be tracked no mater where it is or who is using it. It is very useful for just this kind of stealing. For those of you who might be interested in this. it can be found at Digimarc.com.I would only use it on my very best photos though, as it is a bit pricey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photovision Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Curious, Did any of you email the collage and notify them that they had a student thief in their photography department? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGTrask Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Hi Jackie, Thats exactly how I got my images removed; I wrote to the college website administrator via their "contact us" link pointing out that I owned the copyright to certain images and that if they wished to continue using them on their website then I would require a licence fee. It took a little while and some persistance, but they were eventually removed. Thanks for the info regarding the tracking software btw. Regards, Andrew.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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