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Theres also a slim chance the person who used the image paid some other unscrupulous person for it on good faith, or were given it by a friend not knowing where it came from

I slapped your URL into tineye - the image search site and found 3 dead links to the exact image, so its been around a bit

Lyrra

according to the author there were other infringements as well.

regardless, if youre going to call yourself an art director and supply the graphics for a project you had damned well better make sure you can account for where everything comes from.

that tineye site is depressing. i put some of my more popular images in it and some have multiple pages of results. i dont mind people reposting with my sig/a credit but when they edit out my sig it really irks me.  i dont lose sleep over it though since its the nature of the internet - always was, always will be.

the alternative is watermarking, i know. but honestly youre just going to piss people off even more when you use HUGE over the top watermarks. when i open something like this and the subject is completely obscured by a ridiculous watermark i just grumble and close the damned thing.  there is no way i would favorite that, and i am way less inclined to comment since i consider it a pretty arrogant practice.