photos can also be stolen from the web

**"* D* <m*@gmail.com>**

A search on google images (http://images.google.com/) using the internet
address of
my garden blog at the local paper, led to pages and pages of almost every
photo I
have ever posted.

It's not just our words that are in the public domain.
Martha Stoodley

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Kathy Purdy <kopurdy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Doesn't GWA have a lawyer available to members for such matters? Sometimes
> a
> terse letter on law firm letterhead can get results.
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, C.L. Fornari <clfornari@mail.com> wrote:
>
> >  A search of my website pages on Copyscape (http://www.copyscape.com/)
> >  just turned up a landscape company that used the article about Pruning,
> in
> > it's entirety, plus a photo illustrating that article on the front page
> of
> > their newsletter in 2004.  I sent them a letter asking for payment, and
> they
> > just replied that they've removed the stolen material from their website.
> >  So, fellow writers, do I do anything else about this or let it go? Your
> > opinions, please!
> > Signed,
> > Steamed in Sandwich
> > (C.L. Fornari)
> Kathy Purdy
> Cold Climate Gardening: providing the information you need
> to succeed in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 and colder.
> http://www.coldclimategardening.com
> Blogging Art and Practice: YourBlogHelper.com
>
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