Image theft

Found this on naturescapes, My entire website is up there and checking a lot of names on here so are your images-just put your name in the search

http://www.fotosimagen.com/

Hi Dave,

I think it is some sort of "search" site like Google or any other so typing your name would give you image results of your work that's somewhere on the web.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Did you type under buscar imagenes? not sure why it shows the size of the image if its just a search engine-looks like they are offering them for wallpaper

Dave

Hi Dave,

That is a fraction concerning. I put my name in under buscar images and just about every image on my blog is one there...

I had fallen out of the habit of adding Copyright notices on each blog entry, but clearly I need to get back into that habit.

Cheers

Austin

The image quality is so bad I dont think its a problem

All my blog images are on there too. Like Austin, I stopped copyrighting some of them but clearly you can never be too careful.

Thanks,

Chris

Plenty of mine too, and no apparent way to contact them to have them removed. The thing that worries me most is that the photo titles as shown on the site have not been published as such anywhere, that is how i keep them on my hard drive for easy access, if published, i change the name straight away, so how did they get them with those titles ?

Hi Yes there are a fare few of mine on there to, what nationality is this site?

Dale

Looks like they are offering them as wallpapers. There are a few of mine and Phil's by the look of it! Mine have been pinched from another site..

There is some good advice over at Naturescapes along with details of how and who to contact-sorry to send a link to another site mods but its easier than copying the details

there are lots of mine on even a pic of me from Flickr,but the image quality is rubbish so is there anything I should be concerned about, also my website is on

Hi Dave,

Many thanks for posting this, I found a few of my images on there, and quite a few of Drew's too. What gets me is that these are very old images that I haven't had on my website for a very long time, so have they been on this website for ages? Or where have they got them from?!

Yes, the image quality is very poor, but I don't want my name associated with poor quality images!

Besides, I didn't agree to this use, therefore it's a copyright infringement. I have just emailed them as per the very helpful guidance on Naturescapes.

The crazy world of the internet!

Thanks again

Hi Dave , there appears to be a lot of similarities with Pixdaus.com which I raised concern about a few weeks ago ,The text , format and colours seem far too familiar . Google and the copyright route has been a waste of time with them continuing to allow posters to repost others images with and without credit.
Its a sad thing but copyright thieving is exactly that ......thieving.

There are a few of my images there too ...

I wonder if a search on the page/web address ownership leads both back to the same address and culprit .

Looks like the web host has suspended the site

I guess with the site being suspended it shows that if we all gang together we can stop this crap from happening, A big thank you to Carolyn at Naturescapes for her help as well

Dave

Site is still up just went on it.....

Yup, website is still up, BUT now when you click on the thumbnail, it takes you to the website/page that the image has come from, the same as Google images - this is considered 'fair use'. Thankfully it is no longer offering the images to use as wallpapers!

Something to keep an eye on!

Big thanks to everyone involved.