Another Pakistani company using images without permission

[robthehiker]

Matt,
that is incredibly frustrating. I feel for you. Image theft or IP theft should be punishable by public flogging at the very least.

For those that produce images that they're worried about being stolen, Firefox has a handy plugin called "Who Stole My Pictures?" which allows you to search w/multiple engines for your images.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir...e-my-pictures/

The results are sometimes humourous, but it does work.

Composing nasty letter now.

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Edit:
If it makes you feel any better, Matt. They've also stolen from Kinloch Anderson.

From KA
Attachment 8535

From the thieves
http://www.scotlandproductsonline.co...in-velvet.html
Attachment 8536

They've reversed the image, but it's definitely KA's.
I'm sure there are more, but I'm too busy to track them down. The black Barathea Montrose looks to be KA's as well.

Public flogging, says I.

They put their own watermark on the stolen photo. Nice touch.

*** on the flogging

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I've considered watermarking my pics in a more obvious way, but one has to be delicate with how that's done in order to avoid degrading the quality and usability of the image.

Plus, a lot of images I post on line (like this one) are not even product images I am using to advertise my wares, but rather are just "hey, here's this neat thing or idea" picture for the benefit of you X Markers or readers of my blog.

I do recognize the irony of the image thieves themselves watermarking their stolen images.

Thanks for the support, guys!

[Father Bill]

Disgusted message sent.

[California Highlander]

Another option is to contact google, yahoo, and bing and ask them to exclude the offending site because of copyright infringement. Worth a shot.

[sailortats]

another scathing message sent

[ThistleDown]

That's their counter, isn't it? If it appears on the web it belongs to all -- no copyright. And most of us don't want to despoil our images with watermarks and the like so we leave ourselves wide open. I've posted this one before, but with its w/m this pic of my great-grandfather is very strange; without it it can be posted anywhere and claimed by anyone. In this case we watermarked his hipline because it was his face, aspect and attitude that was important. In your Sherrifmuir set you were displaying neckware, not the tartan -- perhaps you could watermark the lower portion. Of course, unscrupulous tie vendors could then crop to just the neckware and sell your ties and beard as theirs. *sigh*



My letter of issue with their ethics has been sent. But that's the basic problem: ours are not theirs.

[rondo]

Scathing messege sent.
Rondo

[Dangerdean]

http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?do...rog_id=GoDaddy

I'm starting to love what I can find through whois.net. Maybe I should have stuck with journalism.

[Ancienne Alliance]

We have had the same problem, Pakistany companies stealing photos from Lady Chrystel's website...
It really comes as a shock.


Best,

Robert

[davidg]

Matt, try contacting the ISP. It's a strategy that has worked well for me in other situations

There is an online example somewhere on the net for dealing with international copyright infringement with ISPs but basically inform them you are the copyright owner of images held on their servers and require them to remove the offending image/s. If they do not do so (and they almost certainly will) simply contact ICAN (the domain authority) and they should be able to deal with it. ICAN are a US organisation