Copyright Infringement

[Bruce Whitehead]

If someone was using my snake photos to scam a buyer, their intent is so far removed from copyright infringement that it would never enter the equation.

There's wrong and then there's WRONG!

For me (at least). I feel there is a huge element of "creed" going on when someone takes a pic and uses it.

I have vented about this with a few online friends in the past.

I knew a person, new to snakes, that picked up a few possible het recessives for the price of normals. Cause that is what they are.

And when I visited the site, I saw "Projects" and there were pics of pieds, hypos, you name it... as well as an amazing bio regarding the vast amount of experience and love of animals dating back many years.

Sure this individual had always loved snakes, but this person had JUST gotten to point of owning them, considering breeding, and did not have even rudimentary genetics knowledge yet.

I knew this, because I knew them personally.

But were I to wander across this page, and see those pics... suddenly this person has creed. They have experience, they have knowledge, they have just upped their credibility tenfold.

Their site would have superceded mine. Because my Albino, Clown, Axanthic, Hypo, and Pied projects are just hets, and that is what would show on my site.

There is more to it than merely being inconsiderate.

By the time I invest the time, energy, resources and knowledge to produce a Pied and then post it. That will speak for itself.

If I go to a site and I see 3 normals and 2 WCs... I know this person is new to the hobby... I see tons of morphs, and not just morphs, but well photographed top notch examples of them, that leads me to believe that I am dealing with someone with experience.

This person may not outwardly be scamming me, but their online persona is a fraud, whether intentionally meant to be that way or not.

There is a reason people never steal crappy pics...

Bruce