Using photos that are not your own
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All Delight
2500 Club Member
I would either ask before using, or when you post give credit.
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kschweer
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Sounds fair to me. I'm not asking cause I want to use someone's photo, I have seen someone using other vendors pictures and over saturating them to sell corals. I guess I really want to know if I should inform the vendors of this.
KoleTang
Valuable Member
If they are abusing them. ie. saturating them then it may be a good idea to give the pic's actual owner a heads up.
I know I'd be mad to have that happen to my pics.
I am assuming this is happening on ebay?
I know I'd be mad to have that happen to my pics.
I am assuming this is happening on ebay?
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Russellaqua
Coral Junkie
If you notice this happening here on R2R, please notify the moderators using the report post feature. On the left side of the post, below the join date/location/posts stuff you will see a triangle with an exclamation point in it. Click on this to report a post for any violation of our ToS. This will alert the mod staff to the problem (we can't read every post), but reporting the post let's us know we need to check it out.
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kschweer
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Yea it's on eBay. I wouldn't have said anything on here if they weren't using photos from sponsors of this site. Maybe some of them will see this thread and do a little investigation of there own. Like you said I wouldn't be happy if it were done to me.
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mfinn
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What if you notice one of the sponsors are using photo's that aren't theirs to sell products?
joshporksandwich
Zoa addict
That happened to me with an ebay vendor. they started using all my pictures of stuff i purchased from them to resell the same corals. I contacted them about it. It worked out at the end as I got a bunch of free corals from him, since he's close to me we became good friends and I get a lot of his new stuff to take pictures and I get to keep if its not too expensive.
Shelby2012
Community Member
I'm glad people like kschweer still exist. Most of the people think if a pic is on the internet it is free to use. No it's not. It doesn't matter if the pic has watermarks or copyrights logo on it or not. If it's not yours, don't use it, especially trying to represent a coral that you are selling. I'm glad kschweer brought this issue to this forum and the administrators are serious about it.
joshporksandwich
Zoa addict
In my local fmas forum theres a guy that half of his posts are taking pictures from here and posting them there it annoys the crap out of me. I always make fun of him but the guy is clueless. Some people don't have common sense.
Any photo taken, no matter where it's found on the web, is the property of the photographer, unless the photographer has already released their rights. You cannot know, by viewing a photo, if the rights have been released. SO, if you see a photo on the web, and you DID NOT take that photo, you DO NOT have permission to use that photo, in any way, without getting PRIOR permission from the photographer.
ALL photos are the intellectual property of the photographer, the second the shutter is pressed. Posting that photo on the web does not change the "ownership" of that intellectual property in any way. Photos do NOT have to be watermarked, registered or have a copyright symbol or notice. Registering a photo does give the photographer MORE legal remedies, if the property is stolen.
So many people thinks is okay to Copy/Paste or Save As, any photo they see on the web. In reality, this is theft. Even the most "innocent" action of seeing an amazing photo on the web, thinking "that'd sure be pretty as my desktop," using Save As, and turning it into your desktop photo, IS theft of intellectual property. If that photo has been registered, the theft can result in even more "punishment" but a lack of being registered does not stop the photographer from coming after you nor does it mean a law has not been broken.
If you see this happening, please report it to staff members. In your report, it'd be helpful if you can supply a link to the original use of the photo.
ALL photos are the intellectual property of the photographer, the second the shutter is pressed. Posting that photo on the web does not change the "ownership" of that intellectual property in any way. Photos do NOT have to be watermarked, registered or have a copyright symbol or notice. Registering a photo does give the photographer MORE legal remedies, if the property is stolen.
So many people thinks is okay to Copy/Paste or Save As, any photo they see on the web. In reality, this is theft. Even the most "innocent" action of seeing an amazing photo on the web, thinking "that'd sure be pretty as my desktop," using Save As, and turning it into your desktop photo, IS theft of intellectual property. If that photo has been registered, the theft can result in even more "punishment" but a lack of being registered does not stop the photographer from coming after you nor does it mean a law has not been broken.
If you see this happening, please report it to staff members. In your report, it'd be helpful if you can supply a link to the original use of the photo.
BillyC
Valuable Member
In case anyone is wondering who the eBay vendor is, it is RNegret. I was shocked to see a picture of the EXACT wysiwyg frag I purchased from a vendor in eBay from a totally different person. Literally the same picture except it was extremely saturated. I told the vendor and the picture was eventually removed. You can't trust RNegret's pictures. I used to give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he was shooting under all royal blue LEDs but seeing him blatantly saturate a picture he found on another vendor's site makes me realize that the corals you buy from him are not what is shown in pictures.
joshporksandwich
Zoa addict
LOL! Rnegrets photoshop skills must be super bad and saturated maybe that's why he can't sell anything and has so much negative feedback!!!!!!!!!!!! lololol I can't stand him!!!!!!! But all kidding aside his corals are amazing and most of his pictures don't do his corals justice. His feedback speaks for itself!!!!!!
