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Actually you are wrong. Any picture you take you automatically hold the copyrights to. You don't have to jump threw hoops to do it. Proving you own it is the only issue, an why most people watermark. I'm pretty sure pointing out that the picture is of there yard, house, car is pretty...
Bad business practices always catch up with you.
I bet there is more to this "going out of business" than just that.
If you look now, it looks like he pulled about half the pictures....
See this at the bottom of the page?
" Copyright 19992010 BackYardChickens.com"
This is not public domain an posting a picture you took on here does not make it public.
Get to gather with the other people he stole pictures from an send letters to google, yahoo, ask, bing an his ISP an he will...
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Thats why I asked.. I didnt see any loading from BYC so I though one of us had our definition wrong.
People that took the pictures can send a letter to the sirch engines an have him removed for copyright violations.
Google http://www.google.com/dmca.html
"Infringement...
The owner of BYC has his website blocked just like they block bad language an it changes it. Probably because he is passing photos from here off as his..