When someone uses photos of your boat for their commercial gain

Shuggy said:
This company has pinched a photo of my boat from Flickr for their company website.
Bast*rds.
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Sometime ago I did a diagram to show legal nav light combinations to help explain nav lights on the OA message board

Later i used it on here. Google soon picked it up. Now it appears on several commercial websites. One is anther sailing school.

Quite flattering really.
 
VicS said:
Sometime ago I did a diagram to show legal nav light combinations to help explain nav lights on the OA message board

Later i used it on here. Google soon picked it up. Now it appears on several commercial websites. One is anther sailing school.

Quite flattering really.
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Invoice them for annual royalty fees?
 
I found quite a few of my pics on Google when one searches ' image for ' boats; the amusing thing was most of the subject boats were anything other than any of my boat types !

They just seem to grab any image they feel like, ' that's a boat in sunshine, that'll do ' - in the same way as the BBC put up pics of any aeroplane with a propellor, ' That must be a Spitfire '...:rolleyes:
 
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So you have contacted Jean-Paul Deloffre of Blue Sailing in France and he has failed to reply to your request re the use of your photo?

A few checks and Blue Sailing appear to source a great deal of their web-site information from elsewhere.
 
Welcome to the club. You will find copyright yacht photos from our website http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/ on several Greek and Croatian charter websites that ignore emails and letters telling them to take it down. They occasionally pop up without or permission in British websites as well, but always a polite request to remove them has worked, once or twice having to be backed up by threats of legal action.

Some websites (this among them) use the "small print" to snaffle the right to use any photos you embed in posts. As others have said, look at your Flickr small print.

I would expect the French website to remove your photo if you ask them.....
 
DFL1010 said:
Under what licence did you publish IT on Flickr?
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Very important to know this before coming to any conclusions. I have no idea what Flickr's default license is, but I've seen cases of people publishing things under Creative Commons (and not CC NC or CC SA) and then acting all butthurt when someone else used the picture. When they explicitly gave the world permission to use it, using a license designed for exactly that!

Pete
 
First off screen grab everything, including the page source code. Often with Wordpress this puts images in dated files so you can see when the images was uploaded. Handy when they say it's been on there for weeks, when really it has been on there for months. Next submit a DMCA request to get the image removed http://www.dmca.com/FAQ/What-is-a-DMCA-Takedown

If you don't want financial reward (which you are entitled to) you have a few options, my favourite is to name and shame them on social media (which usually brings an apology and removal of images) or you can walk away.

If you want to take it further http://www.epuk.org/opinion/stolen-photographs-what-to-do

But also check the rights that you uploaded that image into Flickr, you may have clicked the CC tab by mistake.
 
What is the problem here? I would be flattered. It is not costing you anything, nor damaging your boat in any way. If you don't want your photos to be seen by any number of strangers then don't put them on the Internet.
 
When a pic of my boat appeared on the front page of the local paper in 1984 I had to pay the owner £25 for a copy. He was Ken Taylor, a screenwriter, so in the trade I suppose, the pic was taken by his son, Matthew Taylor.
 
Mataji said:
What is the problem here? I would be flattered. It is not costing you anything, nor damaging your boat in any way. If you don't want your photos to be seen by any number of strangers then don't put them on the Internet.
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fisherman said:
When a pic of my boat appeared on the front page of the local paper in 1984 I had to pay the owner £25 for a copy. He was Ken Taylor, a screenwriter, so in the trade I suppose, the pic was taken by his son, Matthew Taylor.
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Right - he took the picture so he owned the copyright.

The thread title is somewhat misleading - it doesn't matter whose boat it is, it matters whose photo.

Pete
 
Mataji said:
What is the problem here? I would be flattered. It is not costing you anything, nor damaging your boat in any way. If you don't want your photos to be seen by any number of strangers then don't put them on the Internet.
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Kind of hard to market myself as a photographer without showing off my photos, don't you think?

I make my living selling my images, flattery doesn't pay the bills.

If I park my car on the street I don't expect anyone to take it and use it. It's the same with my photography.

Photographs have value, if someone is using them they have value to the person/company. Do you work for free and give your services away to people who want to take advantage of you? No, me neither.
 
snooks said:
Kind of hard to market myself as a photographer without showing off my photos, don't you think?

I make my living selling my images, flattery doesn't pay the bills.

If I park my car on the street I don't expect anyone to take it and use it. It's the same with my photography.

Photographs have value, if someone is using them they have value to the person/company. Do you work for free and give your services away to people who want to take advantage of you? No, me neither.
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But you're a professional photographer Snooks ..... so those photos are your livelyhood. I don't think the OP is in the same position so surely he should be flattered that this professional website has chosen his photo? I don't suppose that he ever intended to, or will, make any money from it either way.

Richard
 
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