Forum: Photography


Subject: Don't steal my images!!!

Nilla opened this issue on Sep 13, 2005 ยท 16 posts


Nilla posted Wed, 14 September 2005 at 4:55 PM

That is the deal if they don't ask your permission to use your image, and they use it on a magazine cover, they know they will lose in court and it could create bad publicity for them, so yep they are going to pay for the use of it. Once I get my website up and rolling, I will allow not for profit use with a link back to my site, as I think that is smart business. But when they just take your image and post it on their website with no permission, in a way it is like a compliment, but they aren't paying for the right to use it. I wanted the image removed, and it appears that the whole page has been removed. Probably because the rest of the images were stolen from UF too! I not only google my name, I use a few different search engines. I also use the image search feature as well, and I come up quite a few times. It is not the first time I have requested an image of mine removed from a site, and I am sure it won't be the last. I refuse to let my images stay there because permission wasn't asked first. I am usually pretty leinient if asked first. One thing I hate more then anything is a theif. Brenda :)