Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2009 21:23:19 GMT -5
Your Photo On Web Could Become World's Own
By Frank James
All Things Considered recently featured an amusing story about a suburban St. Louis woman who was surprised to learn that a photo of her family was featured in a large Czech grocery store ad.
The Czech store apparently got the photo off either the woman's web site or some social networking sites.
That story led a listener, Mark McPherson of Nashville, Tenn. to recount his own similar experience.
I have to believe this is way more common than any of us can imagine.
I agree. This kind of pictoplagiarism probably happens a lot. It's interesting that the two examples of this we know of involve Eastern Europe. Don't know if there's any greater meaning to be gleaned from that.
If any of you has come across this type of activity with your own photos, let us know, especially if it's of this variety, where a business swiped the use of your photo without asking permission or giving credit.
By Frank James
All Things Considered recently featured an amusing story about a suburban St. Louis woman who was surprised to learn that a photo of her family was featured in a large Czech grocery store ad.
The Czech store apparently got the photo off either the woman's web site or some social networking sites.
That story led a listener, Mark McPherson of Nashville, Tenn. to recount his own similar experience.
I had to laugh when I heard the story of the family whose photo was used in the Prague grocery store. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago. A russian airline's inflight magazine copied a photo of me holding a piranha from my fishing business website. I was living in Brazil at the time. A friend of mine was visiting Russia and just happened to open the magazine and was quite surprised to see my photo. Here is a link to my blog post about it:
westnashvillegringo.blogspot.com/2007/07/to-russia-with-love.html
westnashvillegringo.blogspot.com/2007/07/to-russia-with-love.html
I have to believe this is way more common than any of us can imagine.
I agree. This kind of pictoplagiarism probably happens a lot. It's interesting that the two examples of this we know of involve Eastern Europe. Don't know if there's any greater meaning to be gleaned from that.
If any of you has come across this type of activity with your own photos, let us know, especially if it's of this variety, where a business swiped the use of your photo without asking permission or giving credit.