Nilla opened this issue on Sep 13, 2005 ยท 16 posts
LostPatrol posted Wed, 14 September 2005 at 3:36 PM
Grrrr Sadly this is a problem that wont go away anytime soon. I have images on about 10 sites that have asked my permission and link back to me as part of the deal. Also numerous images of models on their own sites/online folios that I have given them permission to use, Most notably Yvonne and Britney, to be fair they generate a fair bit of work for me, so thats cool. My site gets around 10-15000 page views a month, so there are probably hundreds stolen for every one that is asked for. I have started to put my name on images, particularly the model ones as these are most likely to get stolen, I dont like having to do this, but feel it has become necessary in some cases, sad really. I have never come across any that have been stolen, Googiling my name brings up too many results to check them all (fame at last lol) My friend found one of his images on the front cover of a mag! He sent them an invoice saying pay or go to court lol (bold move) they paid up, lucky guy!