Incredible! Someone on Ebay is using my pic

[jnjross]

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borrowed yeah if they were not profiting from it but they are so it's stealing

 

[Wildsky]

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I agree, I'd like to know who it is too. In the future I had planned to try to only get my eggs from fellow BYCers and I'd rather not deal with her....

I'm trying to figure it out - her store is called
"The prinitive frugal handmade store"

Her other items include:
Glycerin shampoo bars
goatsmilk soap
Black salve
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Hair color soaps
White Orpington eggs.

She's located in BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA

SO if anyone can narrow that down for me I'd appreciate it - save me HUNTING all night

 

[Squeaky]

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NinjaPoodles, is that your pantry photo I saw on www.frugaldad.com today?

Cheers,

Squeaky

 

[Wildsky]

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borrowed yeah if they were not profiting from it but they are so it's stealing

And lets keep in mind the buyer who's being FOOLED into something - expecting some show quality birds there and gets something WAY less.
WHY use someone elses pictures? Why not just go outside and snap a few of your flock? WHY because this person is TRYING to be sneaky and lie about what her chickens actually LOOK LIKE - they could be infested with lice/mites and all kinds of things! A picture is VERY important when you're buying online - you have NOTHING else to go on.

 

[halo]

Amazing she not only steals a photo, not for personal use, but commercial use, and then comes back and bad mouths the people she lifted the photo from!

 

[sara]

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You and I will both be searching

 

[ninjapoodles]

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It's just stealing, is all. At best, it's stealing intellectual and creative property, and at worst, it's representing yourself fraudulently for the purpose of interstate commerce, which is, well...pretty serious.

If you work hard on something, perfecting it just the way you want, and then someone swoops in, having contributed nothing to that effort, and just takes it from you...you wouldn't be upset? If you get robbed, you just develop a "thicker skin" and "get on with your life?" Really? "Just a picture" may not seem like a "big deal" to you, but for some people, it is a very big deal, and represents a huge chunk of their life.

There is a young girl here on BYC who lifted a photo I posted of one of my horses, and uses it as her avatar on her blog, as if it's hers. She didn't ask my permission, but I know who she is (and so would most of you), and I know her intent. I commented on her blog once that the pic is of my horse, so she'd know I knew she was using it, but I didn't ask her to take it down. It's flattering, and totally understandable, because he's a beautiful stallion. I also took her age into account. So that one I just let slide. HOWEVER: If this same person were selling an Arabian colt, and using pictures of my stallion as her colt's sire, or even if she were claiming to own my horse, etc., THEN you can bet I'd have a problem.

Some people don't want their photos lifted at ALL, and that's their right. A photograph is the property of the person who took it, and taking that property without permission is stealing, whether you think it's a "big deal" or not. Obviously, for Jody, It's A BIG DEAL. That's her call to make, and no one else's.

 

[Wildsky]

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PM me if you get any more clues............

 

[rooster-red]

While I do agree that once a bid is made the seller can't go back and delete a pic, they can add to the desciption.

If the seller really wanted to straighten out this mess they would add "photo courtesy of" to the add and make it clear that they don't own the rooster pictured.

Its fraud.

 

[ninjapoodles]

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Yes, it is! It's a really old one, too!

He has used my pics before. There are several blogs that do, but so far, they stick to the Creative Commons pics (you can search Flickr specifically FOR photos that it's OK to "borrow," and I have many in my stream) and give me credit. Frugaldad always links back to me.

If you need an illustration for something, and want to use Flickr to look for one, narrow your search to "Creative Commons Attribution only." Then you won't get into trouble.

A blogger friend of mine actually got a small settlement from FOX Sports a while back, because they lifted one of her ALL RIGHTS RESERVED photos from Flickr and put it ON TV DURING THE SUPERBOWL! Pretty ironic coming from FOX, since they're always trying to sue YouTube people for putting their footage online. They blamed "an intern," which is what usually happens. Poor interns.

(Oh, and the REASON for that weird photo--crooked, even--of one of my pantry shelves, was to illustrate a long-ago blog-post about shopping with coupons and stocking up on sale items with coupons. If you looked in my pantry now, you'd see totally different stuff!)