Seller on e bay plaguarized listing with my photo - even watermarked!

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One thing most folks don't think about is that some people believe that if a picture comes up in a Google search, it's public domain. Someone used one of mine for their website to promote their birds, it was a BYC member, and I asked that it be removed immediately. That was the reason given, that they found it on a random image search.
 
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I think you are way out of line. If that isnt your picture, you have no idea if he gave permission to use that photo or not. For all you know, that person bought eggs from him.

In their other auction for Partridge Cochin, they are using a pic that belongs to Cackle Hatchery. Funny, because the listing says they are not hatchery birds!
They are using other peoples' pics - that's very clear.
 
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But, considering the ethics, SHOULD you? Especially if you pretend they are your own pics? No.
 
Just because you can copy a pic from one web site to another does not make it ethical, or legal. ESPECIALLY when you are representing it as your personal stock and selling eggs supposedly from the bird in question.
 
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I think you are way out of line. If that isnt your picture, you have no idea if he gave permission to use that photo or not. For all you know, that person bought eggs from him.

In their other auction for Partridge Cochin, they are using a pic that belongs to Cackle Hatchery. Funny, because the listing says they are not hatchery birds!
They are using other peoples' pics - that's very clear.

They may well be. But unless you are the owner of the picture, you dont know if they got permission or not, or even if the other people care. Its one thing fighting over your own picture, but if you are going to play Picture Police, you need to get the facts.
 
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There is nothing on the auction for the White Cochins that indicate that the eggs are from the pictured bird, or that they even claim that bird as their personal stock.
 
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I think the proper course of action is to first contact the picture's owner and allow him/her to make the decision as what to do. I agree that in certain cases the picture's owner may have granted permission for it's use.
 
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That comes down to something I like to say to people all the time.

Just because you CAN do a thing, doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD.

I will confess to having not had a picture of my own bird when she was young, so I found a picture of an adult barred rock online, saved it, and attached it in an e-mail to my sister, saying, "I found this picture online of what my new chicken will look like when she's fully grown." I would like to think something like that is perfectly fine... but I would never, EVER steal pics online of someone else's birds and use those images to mislead people into thinking that those were in any way MY birds or that it was a picture of what I had available or use it in a sale of ANY kind! That's just not right.

Even if I had chicks that were the progeny of your birds, it still wouldn't be right to use pictures of YOUR birds to sell MY chickens. How hard is it, really, for a person to upload a picture of their OWN chickens/eggs? Really?
 

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