Re: Stolen images

**"* P* L* <t*@spamfodder.com>**

> There has been some exchanges on another mailing list about 
> unauthorised use of images on this website - http://www.rvroger.co.uk.
> 
> It would be worth photographers checking to see that their work has 
> not been used without permission.

Hi Graham,

   I've found that ever since I split up images into subparts in the
   hort.net gallery, image theft has become virtually non-existent.  
   Granted, there are still ways around it, but they take time and 
   probably aren't worthwhile to most thieves.

   I'm curious, though...   What do you do when you find your images
   on someone else's site?  Here in the US we don't have much legal
   recourse unless we can prove loss of income, and then you have
   to do it within a certain amount of time, register with the
   copyright office, etc.   You can invoke the DMCA to shut down a
   Web site, but the DMCA is such a horrific piece of legislation
   that I feel hypocritical using it.

   For example, I repeatedly contacted Lazy K Nursery about their use
   of images from hort.net (in our pre-anti-theft configuration).  They
   *still* have images from us in their gallery at

      http://www.lazyknursery.com/images/pictures.htm

   In fact, I believe that *all* of their pictures in the gallery came from
   hort.net.

   I've been toying around with the idea of a 'hall of shame' (similar to
   what Philip Greenspun does at photo.net) to publicly 'out' transgressors:

      http://philip.greenspun.com/copyright/hall-of-shame.html

   So...  What do *you* do?

Chris

http://www.hort.net/gallery/      3570 online plant photos and growing!
http://www.hort.net/gallery/date/2004-11-08/       The latest additions
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