Monday, August 25, 2014

Stealing Photos.

EDIT - THERE SEEMS TO BE MUCH DEBATE AND SOME OFFENSE TAKEN BY MY CHOICE TO PUBLISH A DISCUSSION HAD ON FACEBOOK WITHOUT BLOCKING OUT THE AUTHORS NAME. WHILE I RESPECT EVERYONES OPINION, AND WHILE I NORMALLY DO BLOCK PEOPLES NAME FOR PRIVACY REASONS, I CHOSE NOT TO FOR ONE VERY GOOD REASON HERE.  

I GO BY SHAYNA AND BY POLISH JINX HERE. I DONT PUBLICLY POST WITH MY FULL LEGAL NAME AND I DONT USE MY PERSONAL FACEBOOK PAGE TO PROMOTE MY  BLOG. IN FACT, MOST PEOPLE ON MY PERSONAL FACEBOOK PAGE DONT EVEN KNOW I HAVE A BLOG. 

IN THIS INSTANCE, THE BLOGGER USED HER NAME ON HER BLOG, AND USED HER FACEBOOK PAGE TO PROMOTE HER BLOG. THUS SHE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BLOG AND HER PHOTO AND NAME ARE FOUND ON HER BLOG. HAD SHE USED AN ALIAS OR KEPT HER IDENTITY A SECRET I WOULD HAVE MOST CERTAINLY HIDDEN HER REAL NAME. BUT THIS WAS HER BLOGS FACEBOOK PAGE AS MUCH AS HER OWN. 


So the blog "moms beauty time blogspot ca" dont want to link to it, but you can find the blog if you so choose, stole a bunch of my blogposts. Now I am not bringing this up to shame the blog, because the blogger had a tantrum and removed her entire blog. But this was an open discussion in two different facebook groups and I want to bring it here.

My pictures:





the blogpost in question:



Now lets pretend that she gave me credit for my photos. She also stole my words. She deleted a phrase here or there (such as my glow in the dark skin she changed to pale) but otherwise, she even tole my words. No link regardless of the size undoes that.

Now I have posted other bloggers photos before. When I do so, I post one photo and then a link saying to see this and all the other photos, go here. Some people argue that is not ok. Some say it is fine. If its an english blogger I send a message or email first asking. I have never been told no before. And the few times I dont ask first, I make darn sure that the photo I use is one that will not show everything so that my reader WILL want to follow the blogpost. There is no point in posting all the photos and then linking to the blog. There is no reason for the reader to want to go to that first blog.

Instagram photos I use and I always credit. But again, these are subjects that cause a lot of debate even within bloggers. Non bloggers sometimes don't even understand why we care so much.

But worse than this blogger stealing my PERSONAL photos for two blogposts was that she stole my writing for 4 or 5 blogposts. Promo pics that she copied my text on also.

Now the answer I usually get is to watermark my images. I hate watermarks. They annoy me (especially when big and obvious) and I simply don't like the aesthetic. I have also seen many watermarked images stolen and reposted, and quite often seen watermarks removed or cropped out. So what is your response? Do you wait until your photos are stolen, and then fight to get them taken down, do you not worry about a stolen or plagiarized blogpost?  Do you watermark them and hope for the best?

And WHAT are a bloggers resources when this happens?

For me, at least this time, it ended after 2 hours of ignoring my facebook posts with this discussion:
 




And then poof her entire blog went goodbye.

4 comments:

  1. I don think it's fair for you to post the private conversation with her pic te and full name. I'm unfollowing.

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    1. While you are entitled to your opinion, I disagree .Had you asked me why I made that choice, or bothered to attach a name to your comment, I would explain to you why it was not a private or hidden name.

      I have however edited this document - not to delete who she is, but to explain my reasoning behind NOT hiding it.

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  2. Yeah I agree.

    Considering that your header is a picture someone else took of Lindsay Lohan...

    Polish Jinx I love your blog but this uncalled for. I actually feel bad for the other girl. You should remove her name and picture at least.

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  3. Polish Jinx, I think you're completely justified to post the conversation. It's not a private conversation if it was posted to a facebook group for everyone in the group to see.

    She should be shamed, she stole someone's work and tried to pass it off as her own. That's plagiarism. If she did the same with images from a magazine's blog, she could be sued.

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