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Originally Posted by Al Consoli
I just discovered that someone has illegally stolen a photo from my website and is selling it on eBay. The picture was taken in 1999, I think, at Williams Grove of Kasey Kahne in the Zemco #1.
What would you do about it?
http://cgi.ebay.com/KASEY-KAHNE-RARE...3286.m14.l1318
Above is the eBay link and below is the photo from my website. |
Al! Contact a lawyer immediately... Once you take the shot its automatically copyrighted to you. However I'm assuming you haven't sent in any thumbnails to the copyright offices in order to get them registered. Registering them enables like a "super protection" essentially. If you don't your rights to prosecute and obtain reimbursement are limited to the value of the photo... not the value of work behind the photo, future, or past.
However, you have proof your watermark was edited off the photo, this would hold up in court... Anyways, contact a copyright/intellectual property lawyer ASAP!
To Everyone: Credit to a photographer does not pay bills... Your photos and time are worth something charge for it!
Alex
www.figzphoto.com