Photographer Finds Out His Image Was Used Hundreds Of Times Without His Knowledge
Those of you that listened to the Picscout webinar that is embedded in another post today will have heard from the photographer directly. Here’s the full story of how a few flickr pictures were used hundreds of times all over the world without the photographer knowing about it (let alone get paid). Naom Galai eventually discovered and you can see the full story in this video. His blog explains more about how this happened and how the photographer has used the publicity to his advantage.
The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo.
Unfortunatelly a lot of graphic design company use Flickr to steal picture for their work and they don’t pay attention (or don’t care?) for the copywrites… 🙁
This kinda thing really makes my blood boil. Come on Flickr for F’s sake, do something about this.