As a new member of this forum and a photographer, I was pleased to see such responsible advice concerning copywrite of images. As an FYI, to get the © symbol, hold down the alt key and on the numeric keypad enter 0169. Release the alt key and you have the © icon. I generally add my name, ©, and year of capture to any image I want to protect. Often I add "all rights reserved" on a separate line at the bottom.
Stealing Photos
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astrogazer
Premium Member
How did you run across that obscure link, Mark?
melev
Well-known member
I called the company today, and had to leave a message. I was contacted this afternoon by the manager of the company that is using two of my images, and had to send him an email with the details. He wanted proof that I had the copyright to those images. 
Hopefully this will be resolved in the next few days.
Hopefully this will be resolved in the next few days.
jwedehase
New member
Marc, looking at the photographer's gallery, he's not a professional. He doesn't even understand how to use the camera, let alone understand the legal side of what he's doing. I'm actually surprised such an amatuer wasn't simply intimidated by your contact.
Personally, I'd probably nail him with the intent of getting him out of the profession. Clean up the trash before it stinks.
Personally, I'd probably nail him with the intent of getting him out of the profession. Clean up the trash before it stinks.
Desert Fox
Pulling -6 to 9+ G's
Marc, i'll do what i can. If i can't help specifically, i have contacts who surely can.
marcsmith73
In Memoriam
The sad fact about all of this is: These people are trying to pass as a Tank business by useing pics of tanks they simply did not create. To bad for thier customers =(
If you didn't 86 Tucker Marc...he could have sued the company for useing his face for profit....Don't know if Tucker would be willing to help now. =)
If you didn't 86 Tucker Marc...he could have sued the company for useing his face for profit....Don't know if Tucker would be willing to help now. =)
melev
Well-known member
I have the original pictures. I don't have to provide them to anyone other than a judge.
In the meantime, I've been told the images will be removed, but was asked to be patient (as much as 30 days). I'm going to keep checking on it until they have been removed. I did download the page to my harddrive as well as make a hard copy for my records.
In the meantime, I've been told the images will be removed, but was asked to be patient (as much as 30 days). I'm going to keep checking on it until they have been removed. I did download the page to my harddrive as well as make a hard copy for my records.
astrogazer
Premium Member
Give 'em hell Marc! You have every right to protect your images.
Photo copyrights are a very hard thing to try to prove legally. A lot of factors go into determining if you truly indeed hold the copyright to an image.
By far the largest thing they look at is if you do that professionally and have a body of work to show is yours. This does not mean you have a bunch of pictures on your computer you can show them. It means having imbedded data in your images that detail who owns the image and signed releases by previous customers. Copyrights are not explicit nor implied when one snaps a picture. A non-professional can copyright images as long as information exists that can prove the image is thiers.
Where the image is shot can also determine whether you can even hold copyright to the image. Public places such as zoos, malls are fine... A private fish store would be very questionable unless you were there specifically to take pictures of thier stuff.
Now taken that this picture was posted on a public board and did not have anything visually or digitally to signifiy that it was a copyrighted image the only thing you can hope for is they cave when asked to remove or compensate you for your image.
I am a professional photographer and I belong to a professional organization that helps in copyright cases. Even with that organization backing me and tons of contracts and work for over 3 years I still would have a hard time getting anything from a person or small organization for stealing my work. I can become a nuisance
Large companies are the only ones I could get recompense from but they are usually very careful about what they use.
To the person that said it was ok to download copyright photos to your local machine and use in screen savers and such I would like to let you know that a copyright is a copyright and as such unless you are given explicit rights to use that image for that purpose you are in violation of copyright laws. Images that have copyrights can't be scanned, copied, displayed (outside your home) or manipulated without getting the express consent of the copyright holder to do exactly what you wanted to do to an image.
I hope this helps in the least bit
By far the largest thing they look at is if you do that professionally and have a body of work to show is yours. This does not mean you have a bunch of pictures on your computer you can show them. It means having imbedded data in your images that detail who owns the image and signed releases by previous customers. Copyrights are not explicit nor implied when one snaps a picture. A non-professional can copyright images as long as information exists that can prove the image is thiers.
Where the image is shot can also determine whether you can even hold copyright to the image. Public places such as zoos, malls are fine... A private fish store would be very questionable unless you were there specifically to take pictures of thier stuff.
Now taken that this picture was posted on a public board and did not have anything visually or digitally to signifiy that it was a copyrighted image the only thing you can hope for is they cave when asked to remove or compensate you for your image.
I am a professional photographer and I belong to a professional organization that helps in copyright cases. Even with that organization backing me and tons of contracts and work for over 3 years I still would have a hard time getting anything from a person or small organization for stealing my work. I can become a nuisance
Large companies are the only ones I could get recompense from but they are usually very careful about what they use.To the person that said it was ok to download copyright photos to your local machine and use in screen savers and such I would like to let you know that a copyright is a copyright and as such unless you are given explicit rights to use that image for that purpose you are in violation of copyright laws. Images that have copyrights can't be scanned, copied, displayed (outside your home) or manipulated without getting the express consent of the copyright holder to do exactly what you wanted to do to an image.
I hope this helps in the least bit
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