Image Thief on Facebook
Discussion
From this Google+ post.
It seems that the chap who runs this page simply helps himself to other peoples' images and slaps his own watermark on them.
Our more esteemed chums here might want to see if their work has been appropriated.
It seems that the chap who runs this page simply helps himself to other peoples' images and slaps his own watermark on them.
Our more esteemed chums here might want to see if their work has been appropriated.
andy-xr said:
Someone's always going to try it whenever anything's online. There's one saving grace on that page, you can comment without having to join.
You can...but pretty swiftly your comments are removed and you can no longer comment.Facebook approach to copyright infringement is heavily weighted in this jokers favour......
It Does annoy me, and i haven't had anything copied as my photographic/ photoshop talents don't run that far.....
Mike
The effort he must be going to do download the images, watermark them and then re-upload is unbelievable. It must be automated.
He has taken a lot of images from Editor's Choice on 500px which means there's a high change a shot of mine is going to be on there but after 10 minutes of scrolling down, I hadn't got past this year's Christmas pictures.
He has taken a lot of images from Editor's Choice on 500px which means there's a high change a shot of mine is going to be on there but after 10 minutes of scrolling down, I hadn't got past this year's Christmas pictures.
mrmr96 said:
S47 said:
Simple solution to this is to ALWAYS watermark your images - Never enter any photo competitions, and only ever put low res images on the thiefs net sites such As FLICKR.
See example below:-
Hope this helps
Yip - foolproof...See example below:-
Hope this helps
Also, I think I'd rather risk my image being stolen by some s
t FB page than ruin it completely by hiding key parts of the shot. That's just me, mind.I made contact with the person whose name this character used after viewing their website, which bore no resemblance to what the same name was grabbing photowise and watermarking.
Suffice it to say, it was nothing to do with the person I contacted, and thanks to my linking to the FB page, the previous emails he'd received made all the more sense.
Just this morning, I received another reply from Alesssandro, with a link to this on his website, and asking to pass it on.
I don't have a FB account - never will - but if you can think of other avenues to get this seen and FB and the nefarious account holder made aware, then please do.
http://alessandropinna.net/?page_id=172
Suffice it to say, it was nothing to do with the person I contacted, and thanks to my linking to the FB page, the previous emails he'd received made all the more sense.
Just this morning, I received another reply from Alesssandro, with a link to this on his website, and asking to pass it on.
I don't have a FB account - never will - but if you can think of other avenues to get this seen and FB and the nefarious account holder made aware, then please do.
http://alessandropinna.net/?page_id=172
From his "About me" page
Description
The images published on this page, the ones that are not produced by me are the result of research on the internet and on Facebook, without any signature or copyright! the signature engraved in the pictures refers to the name of this page is not the rightful owner!
Description
The images published on this page, the ones that are not produced by me are the result of research on the internet and on Facebook, without any signature or copyright! the signature engraved in the pictures refers to the name of this page is not the rightful owner!
He has started two new pages which feed into the main page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amazing-Images/10777...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Travel-Flying-Dream/...
I cannot understand why Facebook don't shut him down?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amazing-Images/10777...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Travel-Flying-Dream/...
I cannot understand why Facebook don't shut him down?
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