Someone using my website pictures

[rebelcowboysnb]

What?

 

[wolftracks]

Looks like you guys got it stopped.

I was too late to help

As usual

 

[desertdarlene]

I'm glad the ad got stopped.

I know a lot of people don't have good cameras, as I said before, but it does make me wonder about people who don't post photos of their own chicks/chickens when they place an ad. It makes me wonder if they actually have what they say they're advertising.

By the way, disable right click is easy to get around. You can still save the page or copy the photo without right-clicking. Watermarking, especially well-made watermarking works best, but a very determined person can still work around that, too.

 

[EweSheep]

Well a good person who is very serious in getting birds or searching the web for chickens, I am certain some will spot the obvious and report. If you know what you are looking for, after awhile, you will learn to spot the true birds with the right owner vs the ones that does not look like their birds.

I found someone who was using Whitmore Farms Ameraucanas for the Ebay selling and I emailed Whitmore and provided him the link. He didn't appreciate someone using his pictures without permission and he contacted Ebay and they pulled the ad out and put some kind of detention on that seller.

Watermarking does work but like DDarlene said, they can still work around it if they got alot of time on their hands.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

The ad was there when I looked at it a few minutes ago.

I flagged and and replied also

I told them they really SHOULD "take another picture" since that wasn't one of their birds.

UPDATE:

He's NOW posted an "excuse and an "apology"

http://eastnc.craigslist.org/grd/2135322395.html

The picture was from a image site off of Yahoo. It was not STOLEN from any site. It had no copy right on it. If you look up Speckeled Sussex hen it will come up. Use the image on yahoo when you look it up. I did not see anything that said copy right or do not use. I am sorry for the incovenence and I will take my own picture tomorrow. There was not bad intention on my part. I think the post was fine but it has been removed. I think the posting saying it was stolen should be taken down also. The emails I got from this person were very disconcerning and I would appreciate them not contacting me again. As I said there was no copy right on the picture or on the image. thanks​

 

[elizabethbinary]

LOL what does he think copyright IS?! hahaha.

 

[desertdarlene]

That's kinda what I was saying, earlier, that people are ignorant when it comes to photos on the net and copyright. A lot of people really don't know that everything is copyrighted unless it says otherwise.

Still, it makes me wonder why he didn't just take a photo of his own bird?

ETA: I had someone take and use my (and several others) photo from Flickr and it says right on the page with my photo that it is copyrighted and "all rights reserved" but he used it anyway. People assume if it's on Flickr, Photobucket, Google, etc., it's free to use.

 

[swheat]

Pic Removed

I got it and removed the watermark...not really hard if you know a little about graphic programs, but I DO NOT approve of this stealing of web pics.

 

[therealsilkiechick]

i have had it happen to me before also and end up on ebay. someone bought eggs from me and stole pics of my birds and used them in their ebay auctions to sell their eggs when they matured. funny part is mine were housed seperately and pures and hers were all running together with birds she hatched from others so she had a barnyard mix selling as pures. i was furious. she wasn't selling my bloodlines she was selling hers, lieing to people and makeing money off of my birds. doesn't matter if it says copy right or not all phographs r copy righted and belong automaticaly to the photographers who took them. glad to see it was removed but ignorance of the law is no exception.

 

[booker81]

Even if you funk up the code, one can still screenshot or SnagIt, and viola, picture saved to my drive. If people want it, they'll get it, and the only thing you can do is decide how far you'll let them go. I don't think folks want to mess with a BYCer picture, because well, one post here, and you'll have a lot of chicken people after you!