Now they're at it on Instagram!

pullandbang

How's this one for photo theft!



Just spotted this photo of mine posted on instagram of all places, by someone else! If you use instagram, search the hashtag #meath and the photo is there being claimed by user daire96

He even has the balls to describe how he took it. So sad really.......

Kenny Logins

pullandbang wrote: »

He even has the balls to describe how he took it.

Right click..?

calnand

pullandbang wrote: »

How's this one for photo theft!

Just spotted this photo of mine posted on instagram of all places, by someone else! If you use instagram, search the hashtag #meath and the photo is there being claimed by user daire96

He even has the balls to describe how he took it. So sad really.......

Im guessing you've already flagged him for copyright theft. It's amazing what people try to get away with nowadays. He hasn't even bothered to crop the photo to get rid of the black frame. Also any idea where he stole the photo from?

artyeva

not that this excuses it in any way but... he's only a young kid. maybe he just didn't know any better.

nice shot btw.

pullandbang

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Right click..?

any idea where he stole the photo from?

Probably bookface or maybe even pix.ie

I know it goes on all the time but TBH I didn't think people would bother on instagram.

As artyeva says, he is only a 16yr old kid so maybe he'll learn a valuable lesson from it.

supernature

Lovely shot.

Where should I look to get advice on preventing my pictures ending up with someone else taking credit for them?

Kenny Logins

artyeva wrote: »

not that this excuses it in any way but... he's only a young kid. maybe he just didn't know any better.

nice shot btw.

I'd agree if he had just swiped the picture and said 'look at this cool photo' or just posted it as is, but he swiped it, cropped it, and tried to pass it off as his own. I'm sure he does know better.

artyeva

@ kenny - absolutely!

but while you can expect a kid to have a grasp on the difference between right and wrong, you can't expect them to have the life experience to realise the greater context of ripping a nice photo for internet kudos from 16 yr old girls

call me a soft touch but i'd call it naïveté rather than outright malicious theft. [and yes, i'm more then well aware that it's not] he's a kid though - that's my point.

get him to take it down, someone send him a link to a clear outline of copyright laws and let him get back to... whatever it is 16 yr olds are at nowadays.. :P

amdgilmore

"Now they're at it on Instagram!"

Nothing new, unfortunately. Google 'stolen photos instagram'. It's unbelievable how many photographers are finding their work on there. Some people are even selling other people's photos as their own on Instacanvas. Shameless.

supernature

amdgilmore wrote: »

"Now they're at it on Instagram!"

Nothing new, unfortunately. Google 'stolen photos instagram'. It's unbelievable how many photographers are finding their work on there. Some people are even selling other people's photos as their own on Instacanvas. Shameless.

Oh no!!!

People, tsk, what are they like?

amdgilmore

supernature wrote: »

Oh no!!!

People, tsk, what are they like?

You might feel differently if you created something and somebody stole it and passed it off as their own work.

edit: wait are you being serious or sarcastic? I assumed sarcastic but on re-reading I actually can't tell!

supernature

amdgilmore wrote: »

You might feel differently if you created something and somebody stole it and passed it off as their own work.

edit: wait are you being serious or sarcastic? I assumed sarcastic but on re-reading I actually can't tell!

Not sarcastic, just no good at getting real outraged intonation in text. It is outrageous and so hard to track. Plagerism of any kind and then profiting from it is just disgusting.

Will endeavour to be clearer. Thanks for seeking clarification.

amdgilmore

Nah... totally my fault. If I'd bothered to scroll up I'd have seen your other post.

Anyway, despite all this rampant photo-thievery, it's yet to happen to my photos. Presumably because they know I'm not to be messed with. It's the only possible explanation. *cough*

AnCatDubh

It is a complete pain when you find an image like this and I completely understand where you are coming from. Of course you've been wronged here too and there is no defence on that. I don't know how you are supposed to be a photographer on the Internet and keep your work under your control. We hear this so often now, maybe a new paradigm is needed.

artyeva wrote: »

not that this excuses it in any way but... he's only a young kid. maybe he just didn't know any better.

nice shot btw.

This is actually context worth bearing in mind. As PC Photo is no longer on the forum, I don't think anyone has the luxury of hand on heart saying that they've never had some sort of access to a copyrighted music track which may not have been properly paid for, though of course that doesn't excuse anything that has happened here and in any event you probably have passed off that U2 or Fleetwood Mac track as being you singing lead vocals :eek:

I also understand that on the forum we generally will rally around our own folk and this is fantastic and shows strength in the community. This, particularly as we understand the wrong which has been set upon them when it comes to such matters. But assuming the guy is a young lad who's ill informed in such matters then perhaps a little restraint in public chastising of him on his own instagram feed should be shown. By all means use the facility to report copyright infringement to instagram (as i've done earlier), but given that he appears to be a teenager who may have just learned a difficult lesson, at a human level i'd be in favour of easing off on the public castigation. Actually, he has now gone private so probably bricking it somewhere (or maybe not) and I guess we can't comment further anyhow.

Anyhow, it mightn't be a popular opinion (and i'd have a different point of view if a number of circumstances were different), but I know at 16 I may have had not been of a mature mind that comes with a few added years. Probably good that the internet wasn't around at that stage

Very sorry it's happened to you though Denis and it was worth raising its prevalence on the forum.

Cheers.

pullandbang

Just to update you all on this. I've received a long written apology from him which I'm happy to accept and I've told him. He has made his account private and told me he deleted the photo. I do think he's learned his lesson (the hard way) and hopefully him and his friends might think twice in future before nicking other peoples stuff.

supernature

Good result & good on you for standing up for your work.

keps

pullandbang wrote: »

Just to update you all on this. I've received a long written apology from him which I'm happy to accept and I've told him. He has made his account private and told me he deleted the photo. I do think he's learned his lesson (the hard way) and hopefully him and his friends might think twice in future before nicking other peoples stuff.

But it's a bit like saying sorry for stealing something after you are caught.

They are not really sorry for doing it -they are only sorry they got CAUGHT.

SdoowSirhc

artyeva wrote: »

@ kenny - absolutely!

but while you can expect a kid to have a grasp on the difference between right and wrong, you can't expect them to have the life experience to realise the greater context of ripping a nice photo for internet kudos from 16 yr old girls

call me a soft touch but i'd call it naïveté rather than outright malicious theft. [and yes, i'm more then well aware that it's not] he's a kid though - that's my point.

get him to take it down, someone send him a link to a clear outline of copyright laws and let him get back to... whatever it is 16 yr olds are at nowadays.. :P

I'm 15 and I wouldn't even think about stealing an image :P Instagram is rife with image theft. I have followers who post nothing but filtered Google Images pics. It get pretty annoying :rolleyes: A 16yr should know better than to steal your pic, report him.

xia

pullandbang wrote: »

He has made his account private and told me he deleted the photo.

I can confirm that he deleted the picture (hopefully not just because of the attached comments). Before making his account private. I must've looked just inbetween earlier.
Now I just hope he really learned the lesson and is private due to the comments he got. Not to steel privately from now on...(sorry, stealing pictures, not crediting or even manipulating them is a pet hate of mine)

On another note: I'm only using instagram for the last three days (old phone wasn't capable) so didn't even realise you can post pictures that you didn't take with your phone...need to check that...

alb

Yikes, I hadn't noticed anything posted on instagram that wasn't an original of the poster (though I have seen plenty of non-phone pics posted), but I guess it's no surprise - at least you got it sorted out in the end.

thebaz

this kind of copyright theft, and then claiming as your own creation - is like cheating at golf , you can do it - but apart from it being wrong, how very very sad the thiefs life must be

Corkbah

shouldn't be allowed to hide behind age or ignorance.

Copyright theft is still copyright theft, no matter how old or young the person is - Name and shame (please) so others will learn it cannot be done - its only when people are publically named and shamed that others will learn of the illegalities.

Sweeping it under the rug simply wont do...the person is a 16yr old - who (in my cynical opinion) has learned that in order to NOT GET CAUGHT he needs to have his instagram on private, he may or may not do it again in the future and at the moment his friends think he's a great photographer capturing some amazing images, but if they learned the truth - how much would they like him for lying to them...directly to their faces.
(no offence meant - simply my opinion) its this kind of attitude which allows people to think its ok to do it (when caught, no punishment is given) and to save the person who broke the law embarrassment the matter is kept quiet.

thatsnotmyname

This kind of behaviour is rampant on Instagram

I know of a certain Dutch footballer who is constantly posting photo's of stunning scenes from all over the world

I know damn well he never took them
a lot of them look like he has lifted them off websites/brochures of 5 star Resorts/Hotels

If it was my work he was nicking I'd be on to a solicitor fairly rapid:D

sineadw

I have a 16 yr old son, who can be a bit thick at times. I was *very* thick when i was 16. It's called being a teenager.

SdoowSirhc

sineadw wrote: »

I have a 16 yr old son, who can be a bit thick at times. I was *very* thick when i was 16. It's called being a teenager.

Being 16 or a teenager doesn't make you thick.

sineadw

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

sineadw wrote: »

I have a 16 yr old son, who can be a bit thick at times. I was *very* thick when i was 16. It's called being a teenager.

Being 16 or a teenager doesn't make you thick.

No, not at all. I was being facetious. But it *can* mean you lack the experience to make correct decisions at times. And it can also make it difficult to take unkind responses when you make a mistake.

magicbastarder

Corkbah wrote: »

(no offence meant - simply my opinion) its this kind of attitude which allows people to think its ok to do it (when caught, no punishment is given) and to save the person who broke the law embarrassment the matter is kept quiet.

so do you read the riot act to friends who own MP3s of tracks they did not buy?

Corkbah

magicbastarder wrote: »

so do you read the riot act to friends who own MP3s of tracks they did not buy?

Dont have any friends !!

Also I dont pry into others lives !! ..so dont know if anyone that I chat with downloads stuff illegally.

bullpost

That's very Ruud

thatsnotmyname wrote: »

This kind of behaviour is rampant on Instagram

I know of a certain Dutch footballer who is constantly posting photo's of stunning scenes from all over the world

humberklog

Hey Denis how did you find out some one was using it?

sheesh

pullandbang wrote: »

Just to update you all on this. I've received a long written apology from him which I'm happy to accept and I've told him. He has made his account private and told me he deleted the photo. I do think he's learned his lesson (the hard way) and hopefully him and his friends might think twice in future before nicking other peoples stuff.

What maybe we should whack him just in case boss

pullandbang

humberklog wrote: »

Hey Denis how did you find out some one was using it?

Pure fluke! He tagged it with #meath and I sometimes tag mine the same. I had just posted a photo tagged #meath and I went in to have a look at any other Meath pics that were up. There it was in among the others. I thought it looked familiar