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I got this screenshot from here: www.brudirect.com/index.php/2010031417719/Second-Stories/...
No mail requesting the use of my photo. No link back to my Flickr account. Nothing.
My friends, if this thing happened to you? What would you feel or think?
What next? Any suggestions?
It was an image of Marina Bay taken with my Nikon D7100 and not a Leica camera which should be the case being a Leica workshop event. They did not claim responsibilities and just have the image taken down without a proper investigation and explanation. Unbecoming attitude from a corporate giant.
My original: www.flickr.com/photos/adforce1/8743584713/
I use a service called Pixsy which tracks if any of your images have been used with-out consent and they have a tie up with Flickr. Have found this image on two commercial website and in both instances they have cropped out the copyright and used for their commercial purposes. Must admit saw RED with that and issued them both a take down notice thru the Pixsy service which can now chase these issues legally in New Zealand. Will see how it all pans out. Some comments i have had are for me to bill them a extremely aggressive fee...if you wonder about your own stuff give the Pixsy thing a try.
Another example of the 'jimi hendrix jewellery' available. This one's only 39,99€. Quite nice in fact. The photo doesn't do it justice as it was done without a flash to avoid spoiling the picture. I'm afraid I know nothing of the techniques of photography but am glad that digital technology exists.
Photo updated 13 august 2022. Slightly better quality & larger upgrade of the original 2006 shot.
'It seems as if Sonia Zjawinski published at article on how to steal images from Flickr users. Well I am going to publish my own stories..
NY Times writer Sonia Zjawinski tells her readers pilfer images from Flickr to decorate your walls.
The story that almost ignited an inane controversy
Description quoted from Hulgatha Doodlesack
His photos is a little NSFW.
Peter
just for kicks, post similar images to this group spinners
january 21st, 2007. salomé on CNN
very last update: american express behaved quite elegantly and i trust the error was sincere.
last update: it turns out american express used this image without notifying me in one of their banner ads, linking to their mylifemycard website. interesting that such a large company needs to go to flickr to steal images. the beauty of flickr is a number of people who had seen this image notified me. talk about the power of a community!
this needed luck and patience.
ok, due to unbearable pressure, i'll try to explain. it is really not that difficult, try this yourselves at home, preferrably first on borrowed children. just like k_rio_k says. synchronised rotation of the spinner, the spinnee and the photographer. the trick is to get both the focus and the right angle to the light. 1/15 of a sec exposure or slower.
I like when people see my models and incorporate some of my ideas into their own. It's cool. I also look at other people's models and they often inspire me. What's not cool is pretending that ideas you got elsewhere are your own. And what's even less cool is copying somebody else's models and selling them and, when confronted, playing stupid. Case in point: this guy. The comparison shows nine examples of models that I designed that he copied and is actually selling via facebook as designs "he created". Credit where credit is due, the reverse engineering can't have been easy. That said, the bits where his models are different are usually the ones where he failed.
For the record: he is the owner of his images, but I claim fair use of them here to illustrate what he is doing.
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Pirated, poorly applied instances of my designs brought to you care of SCAmazon 1 of x (with x being a large number I'm afraid)
Some of these would be laughable if there weren't so many of them - and if they didn't mean so much work by me to issue take down notices - costing time & energy that could be better spent doing other things.
Flickr Spoonflower Discussion Group on the issues here: Copyright Issues on Amazon
And here's yet another designer grappling with the same issue of Spoonflower theft on Amazon: karapeters.design/copyright/
The irony is that Spoonflower - my publisher - hosts its designs on AWS - yet has no business-to-business relationship that could protect its investment. I guess that's the free market for you! Meanwhile Jeff Bezos buys a $114m house! Nice one Jeff!
[Poorly pirated stolen care of SCAmazon_1ofx]
Hi all!
just some copyright infringement news to share...
Full investigation report by Pat Brunet
www.eventphotos.com.au/news/image-theft-is-a-crime/
LATEST NEWS UPDATE
Thank you all for the support with the links to bring this matter to the front for the interest of photographers.
I hope this will benefit those in doubt of what to do when similar cases arises.
Cheers to all!
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Laura McLaughlin of Ink Global wrote:
Dear Mr Cho
Thank you for your email. In order to resolve this matter as quickly and as amicably as possible, we agree to your request of S$750 (plus a credit in a future edition of the magazine). I apologise again for what was, I must assure you, an honest mistake by Ink.
I will contact Gus Low directly as per your suggestion, and payment will be made to you tomorrow.
Kind regards
Laura
My reply:
I am sorry Laura,
it's already too late. The media has already been fed and I can't stop it now. Besides me there are 8 other photographers with the same plight in line hoping to get this truth out to the public as a wake-up call to deter others.
Stealing images from not one but nine photographers in a single edition of the May 2011 Jetstar in-flight magazine is a SERIAL CRIME. It's no more an honest mistake. Ink Global is an international company. You should have known better as a legal counsel.
At this moment, it's no more about compensation. It's the principle to safeguard photographers from such issues in the near future.
We have given you enough time to make amends but you did not comply.
For this I have already wasted so much of my time communicating with my supportive groups which burns up my professional time.
Ink Global will have to face the music for this as you have shown disrespect to the nine photographers from various countries who are being ripped off their images from flickr without their knowledge. The photographers only came to know through Pat Brunet of EventPhotos who started investigating a complaint from a flickr friend of his.
As of now, I will let the officials of the Intellectual Property of Singapore decide how they will address this copyright infringement issue. Expect to see more exposure over the worldwide web. Nothing I can do to stop it now.
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After contacting Ink Global, their Design Director, Peter Stephens hope to get away with just a $100 fee as compensation claiming it was an oversight on their part. Well if every publisher give us the same cheap excuses there will be no more food on the table for photographers eventually.
When I refused their offer they bump it up to $250 and again to $500 like a stock trading. My request was $1500 as penalty for the crime to settle the case in private and they consider that blackmail. Would the judge let you off with just a reprimand if you rob a bank and say sorry only when caught?
To my surprise after Pat from Event Photos investigated deeper into Jetstar in-flight magazine, 8 other photographers from flickr came forward with complaints about their stolen images appearing on the same May 2011 edition. This gets worse. It becomes a serial crime. This is no overlooking matter and definitely not an honest mistake anymore by Ink Global..
I guess they must have done this several times and got away with it. Obviously Ink Global tried to patch things up by paying in small doses. It may work on one or two weaklings but not all. So I was being threatened with legal action should this news leak to the media. What wrong have I done I ask myself. They committed a serial crime and I speak the truth with evidence in hand. Nothing can stop me from feeding honest information to the media.
Ink Global is unaware that Pat has done research and communicated with photographers involved and will be exposing the infringement issues over his blog. This action should create awareness that such stealing activities are coming from bigger corporations.
I am just a small fry who have no budget to engage a lawyer but hopefully the media exposure will hit the perpetrators hardest on their global image. I hope this incident will set an example to deter others from trying to steal images from the internet.
If you think your image appeared in Jetstar in-flight magazine (any edition) without permission, please report it to:
Pat Brunet of Event Photos email: pat@eventphotos.com.au
Please copy this to you friends if you can. Thank you.
Hope all is well.
Cheers
WilliamCho
Does this really need a description? Pretty self-explanatory, I think. Aside from saying that yes, Graysen is still nursing. For reals, not just on naked Barbie dolls....
Mickey seems to be getting a kick out of this.
This picture will be featured on a postcard in the UK and has appeared in the July/August issue of Mothering magazine, in Letters. :)
It has also been lifted without my knowledge or consent so many times that I have watermarked it. Following up on all the stolen instances online, which will take some time!
Train 301 rolls south down Broadway Alley after making its station stop in downtown Springfield.
IDTX 4632 (SC-44 Charger)
In 2008 I had this kooky idea to take my then 4yo son out to an abandoned road and throw him in the air. So I did, and honestly he hates it, so the real photo he is only maybe a couple inches off my hand. But with Photoshop, I created the final result with him many feet over me. And yeah, I got about 2000 views on that. This was back in my D200 days.
Then two nights ago, my friend on Facebook shared a funny meme that’s been circulating around the internets the last few days. I was shocked to find it was my photo, manipulated and annotated with the following phrases. And I’ll admit, it’s funny. (as long as Child Protective Services doesn't knock on my door)
I contacted one of the places I found this meme posted and asked them to take it down since it was theft. They laughed and told me to “tell that to everyone”; they found it on a few other spots. Oh great. So come to find out it’s been all over the internet. Front page of Redit. On joke pages on Facebook with 10s of millions of fans. Tumblr. Pinterest. Google+
Now when it comes down to it, no one is making money on this. No one is using my face on a naked body, or demonizing Dylan. No one is humiliated or harmed. It’s good fun, and it made me laugh too. But just amazing what a little theft and creativity can do.
And no, I’m still not going to watermark my images. I think they’re ugly. But not as ugly as the Star Trek font they used here.
Wellfleet, MA.
Here's a re-post of a shot I took back in 2009. I was recently asked by a (not for profit) organization, who had seen this pic on flickr, if they could use it, giving full credit to me. I was fine with that. I was pleased they asked and was happy to provide them with a bigger file - back in the day flickr had file size limits and they were quite small.
Like most people (I think) my pics have been 'borrowed' from flickr and re-used / blogged / etc without my permission. I don't care that much about it but it's interesting to see who the culprits are.
There is a very useful website that can scan the internet and see where your pictures have been used, if you don't already know about it.
Tin Eye (www.tineye.com) do a really great free reverse image search. So copy the URL of your flickr pic and just paste it in. See who is using that pic without your permission.
Seems Vietnam Airlines have (shamelessly) one of mine of Leadenhall Market in London up right now. vietnamairlines.hanoi.vn/le-giang-sinh-o-anh-air-2779.html
Shame on you Vietnam Airlines!
Maybe that's helpful to some folks - I'm not too fussed about it. I expect it these days.
I am heading off somewhere I have never been before. Back soon.
Taken at the Read Bridge. Unfortunately I can't get it at a higher angle like the old shot below which has a better viewpoint.
©williamcho 2011 Image Theft is a CRIME. Please report it.
You can monitor your pics on this link:
www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html
pp: Topazlab Adjust helps to bring out details of dark areas. Processed from a single image.
Old Bond Street and three "Sloanes" stride along with their shopping bags from Jaeger, Liberty, Mulberry, Hawes & Curtis and Penhaligon's. Different (square) crop of an earlier post: www.flickr.com/photos/fjroll/5942457174/
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Please do not use this image without prior permission
Relationships guide people through different stages and feelings, and sometimes we get confused with what is real, and what is not. This dance is about taking the time to understand.
Relationships guide people through different stages and feelings, and sometimes we get confused with what is real, and what is not. This dance is about taking the time to understand.
Relationships guide people through different stages and feelings, and sometimes we get confused with what is real, and what is not. This dance is about taking the time to understand.
Totally hand-manipulated in Photoshop from YOUR SHOTS.
That's right, I trolled my Flickr contacts' photos for source images, using no image where downloading had been disabled. There are fourteen images in all, combined to make this one kaleidoscope. Most have been stretched or twisted in some way. The original is almost 8000 pixels/side, and I've attached a Creative Commons license to the half-size version here so you can check out the details. (Or borrow back from me, I guess.)
Not sure if this is ethical or not. (Actually, I checked - it's not.) If you spot your own work in there, feel free to bust me. It's too bad, this was a really fun way to gather a variety of textures. But, given the intense nature of copyright law, in the future this experiment will have to be limited to images with open copyrights. (So much for my mandala of artistic nudes.)
One of my pictures got "flicked" from Flickr and got published in a supplement of TOI's called, "what's hot", dated 18th July'08. I happened to take a look at this supplement very much by chance. I have no idea, how many such images are being used on a daily basis - they could be anyones.
On contacting the editor, I was told that it is common practice to "use" free images from the net! Plagiarism in its full glory. They actually went ahead and used an image with "all rights reserved" clearly mentioned on my page. Nowhere does it say that this image is free to use. Original picture here - www.flickr.com/photos/twilightfairy/622839565/
Since the time I have asked for compensation I have not received any response from them.
UPDATE - I have heard from Ms. Poonam Singh, here is the update.
UPDATE 2 - After blogging about this issue and resisting any negotiation, I have finally received the compensation I had initially asked for as well as corrigendum. Hope they learnt a lesson for all times. This whole cycle took 3 months.
Khāqāni or Khāghāni (1121-1190 AD) who was born in Shirvan, under the Shirvanshah (a vassal of the Seljuk Empire) and died in Tabriz, was a great Persian poet. He was born in the family of a carpenter in Melgem, a village near Shamakhy. Khaghani lost his father at an early age and was brought up by his uncle, Kafi-eddin Umar Shirvani, a doctor and astronomer at the Shirvanshah’s court, who for seven years (till his death) acted "both as nurse and tutor" to Khaghani. Khaghani's mother who was originally of Nestorian faith, later accepted Islam. The poet himself had a remarkable knowledge of Christianity and his poetry is profuse with Christian imagery and symbols. His master in poetry was the famous Abul-Ala Ganjavi who introduced him to the court of Khaqan Manuchehr Shirvanshah and Khaqani got his title from this king. He also married daughter of Abul-Ala.
In his youth, Khaghani wrote under the pen-name Haqai'qi ("Seeker"). After he had been invited to the court of the Shirvanshah Abu'l Muzaffar Khaqan-i-Akbar Manuchiher the son of Faridun, he assumed the pen name of Khaghani ("regal").
The life of a court poet palled on him, and he "fled from the iron cage where he felt like a bird with a broken wing" and set off a journey about the Middle East.. His travels gave him material for his famous poem Tohfat-ul Iraqein (A Gift from the Two Iraqs), the two Iraqs being 'Persian Iraq' (western Iran) and 'Arabic Iraq' (Mesopotamia). This book supplies us with a good deal of material for his biography and in which he described his impressions of the Middle East. He also wrote his famous qasida The Arch of Madain beautifully painting his sorrow and impression of the remains of Sassanid's Palace near the Ctesiphon.
On return home, Khaghani broke off with the court of the Shirvanshah’s, and Shah Akhsitan gave order for his imprisonment. It was in prison that Khaghani wrote one of his most powerful anti-feudal poems called Habsiyye (Prison Poem). Upon release, he moved with his family to Tabriz where fate dealt with him one tragic blow after another: first his young son died, then his daughter and then his wife. Khagani was left all alone, and he soon too died in Tabriz. He was buried at the Poet’s Cemetery in Surkhab Neighborhood of Tabriz.
Khaghani left a remarkable Persian-language heritage, which includes some magnificent odes-distiches of as many as three hundred lines with the same rhyme, melodious ghazals, dramatic poems protesting against oppression and glorifying reason and toil, and elegies lamenting the death of his children, his wife, and his relatives. [Source: Wikipedia]
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افضل الدین ابراهیم بن علی خاقانی حقایقی یكی از بزرگترین شاعران ایران است كه رقیب انوری در قصیده سرایی می باشد . پدرش به شغل درودگری مشغول بود كه خاقانی بارها در اشعار خود به درودگری پدرش اشاره كرده است و مادرش از مسیحیانی بوده كه اسلام آورده و مسلمان شده است . عموی او كافی الدین عمر بن عثمان مردی طبیب و فیلسوف بود كه خاقانی تا سن ۲۵ سالگی تحت نظر او بود كه بارها او از عمویش به نیكی یاد كرده است . بعد از اینكه او علوم ادبی و حكمی را نزد عمویش فرا گرفت به خدمت ابوالعلاء گنجوی كه در زمان خود شاعر بزرگی بود رسید و به فراگیری فنون شاعری پرداخت . ابو العلاء گنجوی شاعر دربار شروان شاه بود كه بعدها او به احترام درخواست استاد خود ابوالعلاء و همچنین به احترام خاقان یا حكمران شیروان تخلص حقایقی را به خاقانی تبدیل كرد . بعد از وارد شدن به خدمت خاقان فخر الدین فریدون شروانشاه خاقانی از شاعران دربار شروانشاهان شد و هدایا و صله های گرانبها و بسیاری دریافت كرد . ولی بعد از مدتی از خدمت در دربار خسته شد و به امید دیدار با استادان خراسان و دربارهای دیگر آرزوی سفر به عراق و خراسان را كرد ولی شروانشاه اجازه نداد كه او به این سفر برود و همین تصمیم باعث ناراحتی شاعر شد و او پنهانی به سمت عراق حركت كرد اما در نزدیكی ری بیمار شد و نتوانست به سفر خود ادامه بدهد به ناچار بازگشت و مدتی را در حبس گذراند . پس از آزاد شدن به قصد حج و زیارت خانه خدا از شروانشاه اجازه خواست و پس از كسب اجازه سفر خود را آغاز نمود و در این سفر بود كه ایوان مداین را در نزدیكی بغداد دید و آن قصیده معروف خود را در این باره سرود . هنگامی كه خاقانی از سفر حج بازگشت و به دربار شروانشاه آمد بنابر دلایل نامعلومی بین او و شروانشاه تیرگی و كدورتی به وجود آمد كه باعث به حبس كشیدن این شاعر شد و بعد از مدتی با اصرار عزالدوله نجات یافت كه حبس خاقانی باعث سرودن چند قصیده حبسیه زیبا شد كه بسیار معروف است . بعد از آزاد شدن خاقانی به سفر حج رفت و در هنگام بازگشت به شروان او پسرش را كه جوانی به نام رشیدالدین بود از دست داد و بعد از مدتی عمسرش را نیز از دست داد كه این حوادث باعث شد كه خاقانی از دربار كناره بگیرد و گوشه گیر شود و در اواخر عمر در تبریز زندگی می كرد و در همان شهر در سال 595 هجری قمری دارفانی را وداع گفت و در مقبره الشعراء در محله سرخاب تبریز مدفون شد . در مورد خاقانی گفته شده كه بین او و استادش ابوالعلاء گنجوی كه او را به دربار كشاند و باعث پیشرفت او شد در سالهای بعد دشمنی پیش آمد كه تاریخ نویسان گفته اند به علت پیشرفتها و معروفیتی كه خاقانی در زمینه شعر و شاعری پیدا كرد استاد او یعنی ابوالعلاء نسبت به او حسادت می ورزید و بارها شاعر جوان را مورد استهزاء قرار داد و شاعر جوان هم نسبت به او نیز هجونامه ای سروده است . خاقانی در طول حیات خود نه تنها به مدح شروانشاه پرداخته بلكه امرای دیگر را نیز مدح گفته مانند خواررزمشاهیان . از شاعران معاصر خود با چند تن روابطی دوستانه و یا دشمنی داشته و همچنین با نظامی و رشیدالدین و طواط نیز هم دوره بوده است . او با نظامی رابطه دوستانه و محكمی داشته ولی با رشیدالدین ابتدا روابطی خوب داشته ولی بعد به دشمنی تبدیل شد . كمتر شاعری مانند خاقانی می باشد كه در زمان خود با عده ایی از شاعران و عالمان زمان خود روابط نزدیك داشته و به آن درجه از معروفیت رسیده باشد .
خاقانی از جمله بزرگترین شاعران قصیده گوی ایران و یكی از بزرگان ادب فارسی است . قصیده های او و سایر اشعارش از شیوایی و فصاحت و تعبیرات و كنایه های بسیار ظریف و مشكل برخوردار است كه برای فهم آن مانند اشعار انوری به تفسیر مشروح نیازمند است . خاقانی به علت اینكه در اغلب علوم و اطلاعات زمان خود احاطه داشته توانسته است مضامین علمی خاصی در شعر ایجاد كند كه قبل از او این روش در شعر سابقه نداشته و هم چنین او در شعر فارسی از كلمات و لغات عربی بسیاری استفاده كرد كه تمام اینها سبب شده كه در ظاهر فهم اشعارش مشكل شود . او شاعری بسیار حساس و زود رنج بوده كه حوادث و وقایع روزگار وی را سخت تحت تاثیر قرار می داد تا آنجا كه در تمام قصایدش از بیوفایی مردم و بد روزگار شكوه می كند چون او هم رنج زندان و هم ماتم از دست دادن عزیزان خود را دیده و همین امر باعث شده كه او مراثی را بسراید كه اشعار مراثی او واقعا" ساده و از دل برآمده و نشان دهنده احساسات درونی او می باشد .
او دارای دیوان اشعاری است كه شامل قصاید و مقطعات و ترجیعات و غزل ها و رباعیات است و یك مثنوی نامه به نام تحفه العراقین دارد كه به نام جمال الدین ابو جعفر محمد بن علی اصفهانی وزیر و از رجال معروف قرن ششم بوده سروده است كه این منظومه را خاقانی در شرح نخستین مسافرت خود به مكه و عراقین (عراق عرب و عراق عجم) سروده و در ذكر هر شهر از رجال و معاریف آن یاد كرده و در آخر هر كدام ابیاتی را به مناسبت موضوع آورده است كه این مثنوی نامه علاوه بر مشخصات ذكر شده دارای مضامین عارفانه نیز است . منبع: سایت آفتاب
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Madi poses in the eighth month of her first pregnancy. Shots taken at Stone Forest in Santa Fe. This photo recently appeared, without my knowledge or consent, on a brochure for the State of NM Human Services Department. I am currently trying to rectify the situation. This image is copyright protected, all rights reserved.
So... I NEVER buy a TV guide as i almost never watch TV... but.. i was in the supermarket and i thought: let me buy the Veronica tv guide as they also have nice stories in it. So i did..
That evening i was laying on my couch and i was going thru the magazine with not so much interest.. untill i came across page 32 ... my heart almost skipped a beat as i saw this foto which looked a lot like my work... Well.. hell... it IS MY WORK!! But.... here comes the worst part: I NEVER GAVE THEM PERMISSION TO USE IT!!! AND.. THEY DID NOT EVEN CREDIT ME!!!
This is no fun!! And i am really !@##@!~~ pissed!!!
It is the biggest tv guide in Holland so you would have thought that they would investigate before issuing...
What were the members of the Place Names Commitee drinking when they approved this sign... XXXX Gold ?
Perhaps the proponent of the name stuttered when enunciating. Question is, how is it pronounced... Foray Rd, A4 Rd, Allay Rd ?
Yes - we've all ordered that really good deal from amazon, and yes they are too good to be true.
1. The consumer (Amazon Customer) usually has no idea this is going on. They purchase a design they like on their chosen product at a cheap price without a second thought as to who the artist is and whether they are purchasing an authentic product.
2. The products are made using screen captures of low resolution art files found on artists websites, google image searches or from artist licensed partners like Fine Art America, Society6, and Zazzle.
3. The fake products are mostly made by Chinese sellers, but they have also been found globally being resold by many U.S and European sellers and discount warehouses. China does not enforce international copyright treaties and their courts generally do not acknowledge intellectual property rights.
4. These products are often not as described, made from inferior materials and from very low resolution images that make the artwork look fuzzy and/or off-color. These low quality products often still have artist watermarks still on them. They usually sell at incredibly cheap prices and more often than not they ship from China or outside of the USA.
Why does Amazon let this happen?
$$$$ greed. We can assume the only logical reason Amazon allows and supports the illegal copyright infringement so strongly is that they can make more money selling a larger volume of cheap counterfeits vs a smaller volume of more expensive artisan original products. Amazon makes money on every counterfeit item sold. From membership fees paid by counterfeit sellers as well as a fee for every item sold and from fulfillment fees distributing these items from their warehouses.
Learn more about Amazon copyright infringement and how they are funneling billions of dollars of American intellectual property into the Chinese economy.
BOYCOTT AMAZON!!
AMAZON CREATES STARVING ARTISTS - learn more at www.fusionidol.com/pages/artists-unite-against-amazon
Amazon Hammered for Counterfeit Sales ~ 247wallst.com
Amazon made it easier for Chinese counterfeiters to sell you fake products ~ Yahoo News
5 Things You Should Know About Amazon's Issues With Counterfeits ~ Consumerist.com
finance.yahoo.com/news/amazons-counterfeit-problem-gettin...
www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/amazon-counterfeiters-wreak-havoc...
The $4 million battle over counterfeit pool toys at Amazon ~ Bloomberg.com
Daimler AG Sues Amazon over counterfeit Mercedes wheels
www.geekwire.com/2016/daimler-ag-sues-amazon-knockoff-mer...
Jack Ma of Ali Baba claims fakes are often better...
www.businessinsider.com/jack-ma-says-fakes-are-often-bett...
Amazon's Problems With Copyright Infringement
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/06/16/amazon-serious-copyrig...
Amazon May Go To Trial Over Counterfeit Goods Suit
Amazon Counterfeit goods problem ~ Brandistry Blog
www.dailydot.com/news/amazon-marketplace-conterfeit-fake-...
Amazon Sellers See Fakes on the Rise
www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y15/m11/i19/s01
amazon Struggles to keep counterfeits off the market - or are they even trying?
www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-struggling-to-keep-counterfei...
Amazon a Safe Harbor for ART THIEVES
www.leahg.me/amazon-a-safe-harbor-for-art-thieves-what-ca...
Does Amazon Sell Fake Products? - You Better Believe It!
Do You Know What's Going in Your Amazon Shopping Cart? ~ The Wall Street Journal
Why does Amazon let this happen?
$$$$ greed. We can assume the only logical reason Amazon allows and supports the illegal copyright infringement so strongly is that they can make more money selling a larger volume of cheap counterfeits vs a smaller volume of more expensive artisan original products. Amazon makes money on every counterfeit item sold. From membership fees paid by counterfeit sellers as well as a fee for every item sold and from fulfillment fees distributing these items from their warehouses.
Doesn't a registered Copyright protect Artists? Why not sue them?
An artist in the USA has an immediate copyright at the point of creation. The copyright however, must be registered with the government in order to take legal action in court. There really is no law enforcement to help an artist. There is no assistance from the police, the FBI or the DOJ or the US government in enforcing copyright laws in online marketplaces. All of this is left up to the civil-suit court system. The U.S. copyright registration is much like a fancy extended warranty certificate from a company that went bankrupt.
The Chinese economy and the companies like Amazon, Ali Baba and Ebay that support these illegal activities count on this lack of enforcement. They know international lawsuits against anyone in China is a fruitless effort. These companies hide behind their "Safe Harbor" status that protects them from liability of what sellers do in their marketplaces. This then allows them to create a complex system to encourage the copyright infringements and profit from it directly without being held responsible for it.
Once you've taken away an artists income - they have no money to hire a lawyer. If somehow they do, companies like Amazon have a legal army that will tie up your case until you have not a penny left.
BOYCOTT AMAZON!!
AMAZON CREATES STARVING ARTISTS - learn more at www.fusionidol.com/pages/artists-unite-against-amazon
Amazon Hammered for Counterfeit Sales ~ 247wallst.com
Amazon made it easier for Chinese counterfeiters to sell you fake products ~ Yahoo News
5 Things You Should Know About Amazon's Issues With Counterfeits ~ Consumerist.com
finance.yahoo.com/news/amazons-counterfeit-problem-gettin...
www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/amazon-counterfeiters-wreak-havoc...
The $4 million battle over counterfeit pool toys at Amazon ~ Bloomberg.com
Daimler AG Sues Amazon over counterfeit Mercedes wheels
www.geekwire.com/2016/daimler-ag-sues-amazon-knockoff-mer...
Jack Ma of Ali Baba claims fakes are often better...
www.businessinsider.com/jack-ma-says-fakes-are-often-bett...
Amazon's Problems With Copyright Infringement
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/06/16/amazon-serious-copyrig...
Amazon May Go To Trial Over Counterfeit Goods Suit
Amazon Counterfeit goods problem ~ Brandistry Blog
www.dailydot.com/news/amazon-marketplace-conterfeit-fake-...
Amazon Sellers See Fakes on the Rise
www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y15/m11/i19/s01
amazon Struggles to keep counterfeits off the market - or are they even trying?
www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-struggling-to-keep-counterfei...
Amazon a Safe Harbor for ART THIEVES
www.leahg.me/amazon-a-safe-harbor-for-art-thieves-what-ca...
Does Amazon Sell Fake Products? - You Better Believe It!
Do You Know What's Going in Your Amazon Shopping Cart? ~ The Wall Street Journal
who is the thief ?
your photograph is protected by copyright or copyleft?
read detail:
my work was stolen by www.taipeitravel.net/ (since 2008/??/?? until 2009/6/14).
"taipeitravel.net" is the official website developed by Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government.
2009/6/18, one week after i wrote a complained email to Taipei City Mayor. The Dept. of Information and Tourism has admitted that its contractor; E-Century Information and Technology, has infringed my copyright by using my Taipei 101 fireworks NY2008 to merge with other photo to post on the front page of "taipeitravel.net" and The Department of Information and Tourism has aksed the contractor to be responsible for the consequences.
The supervisor (a.k.a. Creative Director) Cecilia Chang from E-Century Information and Technology, was trying to appeal to understanding that their designer was young and inexperienced not knowing what he did was worng and that Taipei Travel Net was a non-profit (please do not forget E-Century company makes profits) website...
2010/3/3, The verdict from Taipei District Prosecutors Office judged: in this criminal (copyright) law case, it (E-CENTURY INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY CO.; the profitable contractor of Taipei City Government) is legal (has legitimate reasons *) to use my work for public purpose despite my declaration of "All rights reserved" and without my permission...
*according to government procurator's report, the major legitimate reasons incl:
fireworks are only small part on this front page, my works (fireworks shot) are not "originality" and taipeitravel.net is a non-profit website.
2010/4/16, receive a notice from Taiwan High Prosecutors Office that they have asked Taipei District Prosecutors Office continue investigation about this copyright law case.
(期間自2008/??/?? 開始，直到 2009/6/14 被我意外發現並通知台北市政府為止)。
儘管已經明白標示 "© 版權所有 不得轉載"，檢察官仍然認為是"合理"使用...
這就是政府所謂"尊重智慧財產權，拒絕盜版"的真相嗎?
到底誰是"小偷"？
著作權是智慧財產權還是智慧"共產權" ?
簡要說明:
2009/6/9
透過朋友詢問臺北市政府觀光傳播局是否侵權使用本人煙火作品。
2009/6/11
我email給臺北市政府市長信箱關於發現此事。
2009/6/12
臺北市政府觀光傳播局觀光發展科黃科長下午招開協商會議，會議中承包商先得利資訊科技股份有限公司(E-Century)代表人兼創意總監張瓊月表示:
此「臺北旅遊網」係完全由該公司兩位年輕菜鳥設計師負責，伊事先並不知情，「臺北旅遊網」非商業網站，而他們一張網頁照片取得價格僅需新台幣數百元...等理由願意賠償本人。由於明顯規避侵權(著作權)責任，不提「臺北旅遊網」承包合約金額有數百萬元之多，不理本人所提以往授權之參考價格..等原因此未達成和解。
2009/6/18
臺北市政府觀光傳播局局長 羊曉東回復我(發文字號北市觀發字09830610600號)：
"「臺北旅遊網」首頁係本局97年經委託先得利資訊股份有限公司製做，該公司涉嫌未經您的同意即使用照片的行為，本局認為已損及 您及本局權益，並已依契約規定，另案函請該公司盡速妥為處理..."
2009/7/3
台北市大安區調解委員會調解，仍因前述原因未能達成和解共識。
2009/9/14
我就著作權侵權事件請律師發存證信函， 正本先得利資訊股份有限公司代表人兼創意總監張瓊月， 副本臺北市政府觀光傳播局。
2009/11/15
委請吳義雄律師向台北地方法院檢察署(以下簡稱地檢署)提告，就先得利資訊股份有限公司及創意總監張張瓊月與不詳姓名之其他設計師等人，有違反著作權法罪嫌提出刑事告訴。
2009/12/17
地檢署簽分秋股98年度他字第11285號著作權法案件，開偵查庭。
2010/1/26
地檢署改簽分秋股99年度偵字第2106號著作權法案件，開偵查庭。
2010/2/10
地檢署 秋股99年度偵字第2106號著作權法案件，續開偵查庭。
檢察官楊冀華詢問證人"...質諸證人陳俞光到庭結稱: 伊為被告先得利公司之設計師，為製作臺北旅遊網歡迎頁經由雅虎奇摩網站搜尋引擎，在flickr網站發現若干煙火照片，伊僅取用煙火部份，乃將煙火部份一一拆下，翻轉後重製，過程為伊獨立完成，亦未報告被告張瓊月..."
註1: 陳姓設計師自稱是進入先得利公司未滿一年之菜鳥設計師，亦應是2009/6/12在觀光傳播局張瓊月向本人承認應對此事負責的兩位年輕設計師之ㄧ。
註2: 檢察官楊冀華在偵訊時表示，雙方律師可在7工作日內提出補充告訴理由狀說明。由於農曆新年假期，所以本人的委託律師於二月二十三日另提三頁補充說明。
2010/2/11
檢察官楊冀華偵訊次日立即完成不起訴書，主要理由為:
一、證人陳姓設計師所取用之煙火部份質與量，佔臺北旅遊網歡迎頁之比例甚微。
二、次就利用結果對於著作之潛在市場與現在價值之影響言，告訴人前述「101煙火照片」其中煙火部份，單純忠實呈現煙火之型態，並無較為繁重之設計或技巧，告訴人亦自承修改之技術僅為影像重疊。而網路資訊發達，有關煙火照片俯拾即是，難謂有何特殊之無可取代性，此亦足以證明被告張瓊月或被告先得利公司其餘人員並無可能發現有何可使用上之爭議問題。
三、末就利用之目的及性質言，被告先得利公司並非直接販售上開之煙火照片圖利其為臺北市政府施作上揭網頁之最終目的仍係為推展城市觀光...
2010/3/24
收到上述不起訴書，地檢署檢察官楊冀華做出的結論是：被告先得利公司係合理使用告訴人(本人)前述之「101煙火照片」...
2010/4/16
收到臺灣高等法院檢察署通知，將我申請再議之先得利資訊等 著作權法乙案發回續查。
註4：承包商先得利資訊科技股份有限公司 ，係從事廣告設計、智慧財產權等營業項目，資本額一千八百萬台幣，年營業額超過千萬，擁有台積電、寶鹼、行政院觀光局等知名客戶的一家"專業"公司。
註5：其實大家把作品放在flcikr供人瀏覽，就已經算是"分享"。請再進一歩參考，我所樂見"公益分享"的例子：
1. 游同學的明信片
2. Colors of Taiwan’s Democracy 台灣民主的顏色
2010/4/15
Apartment blocks built on the mountains north of Teheran, Iran (Persia).
Another photo of this place taken one year later.
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Copyright Infringement by Hamshahri Newspaper
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Image theft by Iran embassy in Australia website.
سرقت عکس در وبسایت سفارت ایران در استرالیا.
تمام حقوق محفوظ است ©
Did you know that Amazon.com is the largest distributor of counterfeit goods in the world? It's true. Amazon across all of their international domains distribute billions of dollars of counterfeit goods featuring big name brands and the intellectual property of thousands of independent designers, artists and entrepreneurs. These individuals make not one penny from the sale of these goods as they watch the earnings from their creations get funneled directly into China. Amazon hides safely behind a legal loophole called "Safe Harbor" that allows them to sell these goods on their site via marketplace sellers while profiting from them through fees and services. It's been so profitable for them, they keep building more tools and services to support the illegal product trade and often ignore intellectual property holders complaints. They get away with it again and again.
BOYCOTT AMAZON!!
AMAZON CREATES STARVING ARTISTS - learn more at www.fusionidol.com/pages/artists-unite-against-amazon
READ MORE ABOUT AMAZON'S COUNTERFEIT GOODS AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Amazon Hammered for Counterfeit Sales ~ 247wallst.com
Amazon made it easier for Chinese counterfeiters to sell you fake products ~ Yahoo News
5 Things You Should Know About Amazon's Issues With Counterfeits ~ Consumerist.com
finance.yahoo.com/news/amazons-counterfeit-problem-gettin...
www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/amazon-counterfeiters-wreak-havoc...
The $4 million battle over counterfeit pool toys at Amazon ~ Bloomberg.com
Daimler AG Sues Amazon over counterfeit Mercedes wheels
www.geekwire.com/2016/daimler-ag-sues-amazon-knockoff-mer...
Jack Ma of Ali Baba claims fakes are often better...
www.businessinsider.com/jack-ma-says-fakes-are-often-bett...
Amazon's Problems With Copyright Infringement
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/06/16/amazon-serious-copyrig...
Amazon May Go To Trial Over Counterfeit Goods Suit
Amazon Counterfeit goods problem ~ Brandistry Blog
www.dailydot.com/news/amazon-marketplace-conterfeit-fake-...
Amazon Sellers See Fakes on the Rise
www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y15/m11/i19/s01
amazon Struggles to keep counterfeits off the market - or are they even trying?
www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-struggling-to-keep-counterfei...
Amazon a Safe Harbor for ART THIEVES
www.leahg.me/amazon-a-safe-harbor-for-art-thieves-what-ca...
Does Amazon Sell Fake Products? - You Better Believe It!
Do You Know What's Going in Your Amazon Shopping Cart? ~ The Wall Street Journal
The folks from 3M (the Post It Notes people) contacted me through Flickr more than a year after my 2006 Post It Notes car photos had become a phenomenon.
Michelle Gebbie, eMarketing Supervisor from 3M Office Supplies Division, was seeking permission from me to use the Post It Note Car photos in marketing materials for a contest that the photos had inspired.
I responded, asking her where the photos would be used and what their budget was. She responded saying that they would be used for 6 months on in-store displays, and that they would not pay more than it would cost for them to copy our car and take their own photos. I respectfully asked for a little more than that and she stopped returning emails.
They really did do a good job copying it, didn't they? Even Walt thought it was his own car. Now I am getting tons of comments and notes from people saying "I saw your photo at Staples" (or OfficeMax, Office Depot, etc.). Look at their YouTube video. Clearly they wanted people to see it in the store and think it was the same car they'd seen before on Flickr and YouTube.
Was written up here and picked up lots of places.
Two Persian (Iranian) brothers in Mausoleum of Hafez (Hafezieh) area of Shiraz, Persia (Iran), March 1970. This is a photo of my brother and me, taken by our mother.
Copyright infringement in Ideal Life Magazine
دو برادر در محوطه حافظیه شهر شیراز در تعطیلات نوروز سال 1349. این عکسی از من و برادرم است که توسط مادر گرفته شده است.
نقض حقوق مولف در مجله زندگی ایده آل
تمام حقوق محفوظ است ©
I was pleasantly surprised to see a new stall down at St Georges selling photographs. Recognising one of the photos from flickr i enquired and was told that the fella was indeed on flickr.
He told me that MOST were his and that a few were downloaded off the net.
This annoyed me and i told him it was copyrighted work and that he no right to do that. I asked him how he would feel about someone else downloading his work and selling it on without giving any money to him.
Smilingly he told me that it would be great to see it being sold. He also tried to justify it by saying thats why you only put up small images unto the net.
Now as someone who had a stall on Royal avenue for a good few years i admire the fellas get up and go to sell his work.
However by selling work that, by his own admission, isn't his and is downloaded from the net, he undermines any credibility he might have thought he was gaining.
This is wrong and essentially is theft .
Hamshahri newspaper published my photo on its first page. My image was copyrighted under Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) meaning that:
Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
Unfortunately, Hamshahri newspaper violated all of the above. There was no attribution, they used it on the first (cover) page of a highly commercial daily newspaper, and they somehow modified it. Interestingly, Hamshahri is the most profitable newspaper in Iran. However, it seems that they do not like to pay for photos; they just hire someone to surf the Internet, mostly Flickr, and choose some free photos for them. Hamshahri belongs to Municipality of Tehran and its editor in chief is Ali Asghar Mahaki.
عکس من، یک سال پیش از این، تحت لایسنس کرییتیو کامنز منتشر شده بود. استفاده از این عکس آزاد است مشروط بر اینکه به نام عکاس اشاره شود، از عکس استفاده تجاری نشود، و عکس تغییر ننماید. روزنامه همشهری هر سه مورد فوق را نقض کرده است. متاسفانه پرتیراژترین روزنامه کشورمان هنوز حتی با الفبای حقوق مولف هم آشنا نیست. روزنامه همشهری متعلق به شهرداری تهران است و مدیرمسئول آن علی اصغر محکی است.
American Airlines or whatever, my Image on Kawana Golf Resort (below) was used without permission on their web promoting Golf Travel. Image theft is a Crime and must be dealt with severely. It's a shame that corporate offices are setting such a bad example. What if we board AA without a ticket if that is the case? Fair warning has been given but they did not respond faithfully. What more can I say? Merely taking it off the web after notification does not make them come clean. Evidence is already on file and available to all news desk soon...
Beaton's Coaches of Cambuslang took delivery of NYS 257V a Volvo B58-61 with Duple Dominant II C53F coachwork in March 1980.
It is seen at Strathclyde Country Park when new and featured in a Duple Coachbuilders advert in a Coachmart magazine from 1980.
Please let me know if anyone is concerned with the copyright status of this 30 year old photograph as a Trathens Starider liveried Volvo B10M with Van Hool Alizee coachwork was removed from my Flickr photostream today after a complaint from someone who has alledgedly claimed copyright on it.
After reading through Flickr's copyright smallprint, the first action asks the complainer to ask the person displaying the 'offending' image to remove it first before lodging a copyright infringement complaint. Not in this case and I am now under threat of expulsion for trying to share some interesting images in the pursuit of a hobby.