Photographic Plagiarism,

Well Nicole it just happened to me and with the picture above. I posted it back in February and I was FLOORED when I saw it in someone's profile on another site as if it was one of their own photos. It wasn't saved as a "Favorite," with the credit given to the photographer. But instead, it was posted alongside photos of  themself as one of their own. When I emailed them about it, they did remove it, but claimed to be a semi-professional photographer and that they were only showing my photo as a compliment to me. Funny thing was, the only photo that wasn't a self-portrait was the one above and there was no mention of were they snagged it from or who the photographer was.

So everyone, until photoblog does something to protect our photos. This may well be my final public posting. In the future I will only post photos so that my current "Friends" will be able to see them or with an ugly watermark in the center of it.I will also be going back and deleting any previous posts of mine that did not have a Watermark and in the future if I find any of my posted pictures (Watermarked or not) from this site used elsewhere, then I will be deleting ALL of my previous posts.

If someone will even subtly claim this fairly insignifcant photo as their own, then imagine how many  people are doing that with a lot of finer photographs and I would strongly advise everyone to guard and protect your artistic and legal rights. Because like it or not, people ARE taking our photos off this site and using them in any way that they choose.

So, internet photograher, BEWARE!!