21 April 2009

Photo piracy


Sometimes I do weird things - I look for my pictures appearing on other peoples' websites. I found one another day - the picture of the roof terrace of the Luis Barragan house in Mexico City.

It appears on Phillips Garden's blog with no reference to my website, flickr, anything. I am not asking for money, but this is not cool, right? And how did he get that picture anyway? My comment with a fair question of my copyrights he simply deleted. Out of sight, out of mind! It´s good I have my own blog! Ha!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sue for damages!

--YL said...

That's not nice, deleting comment and not answering it.

Its a good compliment to your pictures though :))

Yuval said...

Not cool at all!

Indy said...

I hate when people do this.

Anonymous said...

I think it's funny when people put their pics up on the internet for everyone to see and then get mad when someone uses them :)

You can watermark your photos. Or not put them online of course.

Indy said...

It's not funny to take somebody else's photo and present it as your own. It's called stealing.

Anonymous said...

This is paragraph 7 of Wordpress.com TOS: Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Automattic asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by WordPress.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Automattic in accordance with Automattic’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”) Policy. Automattic will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Automattic or others, Automattic may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, Automattic will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Automattic.

You should notify Automattic and they would help you to remove the photo.