Picture thief

[phoerner]

a couple helpful links.
http://www.photosecrets.com/tips.copyright.html

http://www.megalaw.com/top/defamation.php

[frankykeno]

This is not a new problem and a simple watermark in the middle of the pics would prevent this.

Here is an easy way to watermark hundreds of pics at once and without having to buy an expensive software http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=74550

Great write up Deb! This is the program I had and Deb was kind enough to teach me to watermark. If I can do it, with my crappy computer skills, anyone can. With how easy it is to capture photo's online, it's just good common sense to watermark the pictures you post. Personally I keep two files with identical pictures in them - one are all watermarked, the other are all the originals so I can always prove I was the one who placed my watermark on them.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

do a little research on kingsnake and its business practices.

[catawhat75]

Ryan,
Sorry you feel that way, I thought it would help the buyers to see what a snow looks like and I can not put the breeders name on the ad or KS would kick it off and if it was watermarked I would have know who to ask about using it, now I know and since you complained to KS it does not mater anymore any way. Copyright Infringement is a very bad thing to accuse someone of publicly especially if the pictures is not properly watermarked or at least put your name in the file name. I have a folder with 1000s of BP pictures in it for me to look at and I have NEVER used one to sell one of my snakes and this one was just for an example. You should have called me to talk about this because when I post the ad the first time and you emailed me you never replied to me response so I thought you where just some joker causing trouble. By the way that is the nicest picture of snow I have seen. I will delete it of my HD for you, Sorry for the sleepless nights. But like everyone said to you, if you don't want it used do it correctly in the first place.
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Am I the only one who is really bothered by this statement? So if I fail to watermark my photos, it is fair game for people to steal?? And then to tell him it is his fault! It is stealing if you did not get his permission to use HIS photo.
People never cease to amaze me

[Tosha_Mc]

Seems the obvious has been overlooked -- if the double het for sale has been "replaced by one of his snow sons" as the ad claims -- why is he stealing a picture of someone elses snow.

[Nate]

Copyright Infringement is a very bad thing to accuse someone of publicly especially if the pictures is not properly watermarked or at least put your name in the file name.

a couple helpful links.
http://www.photosecrets.com/tips.copyright.html

Perhaps you should read about the link you posted yourself?

How To Copyright A Photo

You don't. It's already copyrighted.

You don't need to submit a form, and you don't have to use that "©" symbol or a digital watermark -- those are just customary ways of identifying the copyright owner.

Sorry, I don't see any reason to post any links to "defamation" either.

[mainbutter]

Am I the only one who is really bothered by this statement? So if I fail to watermark my photos, it is fair game for people to steal?? And then to tell him it is his fault! It is stealing if you did not get his permission to use HIS photo.
People never cease to amaze me

There's this whole societal acceptance that anything put up on the internet is fair game, free, and not protected by any copyrights. People see pictures and text (and music and videos etc) that are put up on the internet as public property, not individual property. Right-click+save picture as makes stealing pictures so easy, it seems hard to believe that it is stealing, <sarcasm>stealing is supposed to be difficult, right??</sarcasm>

This isn't how it is supposed to work according to the law books, but the extent to which this happens is enormous.

[phoerner]

This is the reply to Ryan 2-6-09 that I never got an answer to so I did not even know if he was the real deal. At any rate I apologize for using your picture, I would have asked if it had a name or ID of some sort, looks like I download it in 5-22-08 so I would have no Idea who or where it came from.


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I just had it in a snake picture folder It does not have a name on it so I
did not know where it came from, It says in the ad that it is just a picture
of a Snow. I can put your name on it or get another if you want.

----- Original Message -----
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To: <phil@rodents4u.com>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:12 PM
Subject: Message about: 2005 Proven by Brian Sharp VPI Double Het Snow Male


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[Nate]

But like everyone said to you, if you don't want it used do it correctly in the first place.

Am I the only one who is really bothered by this statement? So if I fail to watermark my photos, it is fair game for people to steal?? And then to tell him it is his fault! It is stealing if you did not get his permission to use HIS photo.
People never cease to amaze me

Phil, really - that is shady.

Any picture you see now without a watermark, you will use "as an example"? Is your mentality "Yeah - I'll show him why he should watermark his pictures"...

[phoerner]

I apologized to him and to the public for my mistake. What more do you want?