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Irish Photo Artist – Art Thief
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ossie13 wrote:
So its up to Andy to file the report!!
That’s right Steve, I filed a copyright infringement report with Yahoo and I also filed a general Flickr abuse report.
I’m not sure who got to the account but it’s shut down now anyway.
Andy
andy mcinroy wrote:
That’s right Steve, I filed a copyright infringement report with Yahoo and I also filed a general Flickr abuse report.
I’m not sure who got to the account but it’s shut down now anyway.
Andy
Glad you’re on the ball Andy….. :wink:
Cheeky bugger. What is the saying, imitation is the greatest form of flattery?
Still, pee in his shoes at the first opportunity.
AndyL wrote:
Still, pee in his shoes at the first opportunity.
tee hee, that’s brilliant Andy… must remember not to get on the wrong side of you, or take my shoes off around you either for that matter :|
I had a spot of trouble like that on flickr a while back… There are something like 4000 pictures uploaded every minute, that’s a lot of people, which means there are bound to be a few knobs here and there, but, it’s not all bad, there are some good groups and I’ve made a few good contacts there too.
Someone uploaded a picture by Eillott Erwitt the other day, they added like a blue tone and tried to pass it off as their own… Defo a crime worthy of sending AndyL around to pee in their shoes!!
summerdreamn wrote:
i posted this in one of my flickr groups and they got onto it as well!
“Wow. I checked his photos out in depth. I found several EXIF data tags that he forgot to delete. I found TWO where the photographer actually put their name into the EXIF, and guess what? They don’t match. ;-)
I’ve emailed one who I found via the net through his name search. The other is
“Artist Name: Stephen Caldwell”
I didn’t post this to the thief in case anything needs to be proven, didn’t want him to pull it.Some people have a LOT of nerve.
He’s going to freak out when he sees all these comments about him being sooo busted.OH…and found this too…this appears to really be him?
http://www.imagekind.com/MemberProfile.aspx?MI … -0345-41...cheers summerdream!
That stephen caldwell would be me! (if it was yourself emailed me, again thanks!)
someone said they had a number for this martin skitter?
i wasn’t quick enough to get any screenshots of my photos he had stolen but does anyone know any legal ways of getting evidence from flickr?!
thanks,
SteveSteve wrote:
i wasn’t quick enough to get any screenshots of my photos he had stolen but does anyone know any legal ways of getting evidence from flickr?!
thanks,
SteveTry Google; there should be a cache of the original page; don’t know how ‘legal’ it is.
jqmx0 wrote:
I had some free time last night so I tried out the free invisible watermarking application called Concealar http://concealar.googlepages.com/
I started with a photo and created a version of it using the application which had a copyright message embedded in it.
The resulting photo looked identical to the original, I suspect there may have been additional noise but as the point of this exercise is to protect an image which is going up on the web I didn’t check too carefully.
I verified that I could retrieve the message.
I then opened the photo and cropped it a little bit and saved it under a new filename, I then attempted to retrieve the message but the program could not find it.
I also did a screen capture and saved the photo that way, again the message could not be found.
It looks like this invisible watermark is only useful as long as the thief doesn’t get the image from a screen capture or crops it :(
Maybe the more expensive Digimarc solution gets around these problems, I’ve sent them a query to ask, I’ll let you know what their answer is.
I got a response from Digimarc about the robustness of their watermarking solution to cropping etc.
To answer your question simply, yes the digital watermark should survive as our watermarks are designed to be robust and survive most typical image edits and file conversions. But there are ways to impair the survivability of our watermarks. I am providing a link to our Digital Watermarking guide for further information on this and for helpful tricks and tips on how to embed the most robust watermark. https://www.digimarc.com/mypicturemarc/support/watermark-guide.asp
I feel for ye Andy. This happened me a while ago but not in a bad way just a weird way. Some
idiot was taking all my really crap snap shots posting them as hers. This is though she was taking screen shots
and on some of them you could actually see the outlines of the web page.Still though we all you are the original we all know that
The ferret hasn’t found out much in Dungannon, except that he isn’t known there.
There is a family called Cullen who photograph, but he’s unknown to them.
The ferret reports that she found connections to Roundwood, Wicklow on Google,
but I can’t find this.Hi all thought this may be of interest
This is over a year old but caused quite a stir for flickr at the time. In short Icelandic Photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir realised an English company ‘Only Dreeming’ had stolen and sold her images (now Canvas Republic). The result was outrage from Flickr community which quickly turned to outrage at how the Flickr admin dealt with situation. The flip side..Rebekka has become quite renown out of it all.http://digg.com/tech_news/Flickr_censorship_2
http://www.epuk.org/Blogs/569/the-web-giveth-the-web-stealeth-away
http://rebekkagudleifs.com/blog/2007/05/17/official-apology-from-flickr-founder/Bro
Thanks for those links Bro,
A shocking story and a great demonstration of people power.
Andy
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