December 09, 2005
It takes a thief
This is an update to an earlier post about searching the web for people using my images.
There is a realtor here in Charlotte that had been using my Moon Over Morehead street horizontal images on the front page of their web site. I contacted the owner of the business about it. He seemed to understand my concerns so I sent him an invoice on licensing information.
My image was still on the website yesterday and today it has been changed to another image. Ok, so I don't get the licensing fee. No bigger. However, I started looking at the image and realized it was not an image of Charlotte.
I checked the properties of the image and saw that it was an image of London. I did a google images search and what do you know the image is on the first page of search results for that image. The image is located the British Embassies' website in Zagreb Croatia. The image belongs to a quite talented freelance photographer name Damir Fabijanic from Croatia. This is one of his exhitbits.
This aggravates me to no end. The realtor in question is developing a multi-million dollar project in downtown Charlotte. Ok fine, I don't get the business, but dont go continually stealing from photographers.
The website is www charlotte-home dot com. .
What's funnier about this is that the site home page has "Committment, Intergrity, and Trust" as links. In my opinion, someone who blatantly steals images like. this website has, certainly does not exhibit trust or intergrity.
