She answered me back and asked
Do you own that photo?
I answered her back this:
My friend owns that photo. She has used it for years. You know you lifted it. Just take it down and use your own is all. Or ask permission before you use it. It is her main photo she uses for selling that variety, so a LOT of people know that photo, and know it isn't yours. Last week I needed a photo to sell some sweetgrass poults, so I went to images.google.com, and looked at images. I went to the site of a beautiful sweetgrass tom, picked up my phone, and asked the person if I could use his photo. I offered to send him $10 from paypal, but he said no, that is okay. I was only selling a dozen poults local. and not on
ebay, and was not competing with him or breeding them, so he said yes, I could use his photo. He declined the $10 from paypal even. If you have hens laying, you should just take a photo of your own birds. If their backs are worn, just take head shots. My friend says this is not the first time you have taken her photos and used them, so you know the drill by now. It is just NOT okay to steal photos to sell your stuff. If you don't have a camera, ask a friend to help you. Where there is a will, there's a way. Use your own photos of your own birds. Anything else is fraud, really. Just do the right thing. People are watching, and you give yourself a bad rep by what you are doing.
