on 2014-12-11 16:56 Paul Stenquist wrote
I was googling images, looking for some pics of someone I’m writing about. I
googled a name and a photo of mine came up. Obviously, I already have that one.
But what was disturbing was that it was for sale on Photobucket. I took a look
and found that a man named William Payne was selling a number of my photos of
race cars and racing personalities. He has over 134,000 photos on his pages. I
wonder how many are stolen. I tried to file a copyright complaint, but
Photobucket makes you jump through hoops to do that. I did find Mr. Payne of
Facebook and sent him a message to cease and desist. We’ll see.
it must feel really awful to discover that
don't know if you noticed this:
"As a Member of Photobucket, if you become aware of misuse of the
Photobucket Services by any person, please email [email protected] and
include a URL at which the material in question may be located. If such
misuse includes suspected infringement of copyright or other intellectual
property, please follow the Photobucket Copyright and IP Policy.
"
<http://photobucket.com/terms>
the last phrase of which leads to this:
<http://photobucket.com/copyright>
also note that a DMCA takedown notice does not require that you have
registered the copyright; as you may know, copyright is intrinsic and
registration simply bolsters your ability to prove copyright and recover damages
DMCA has a bad rep because of how it is abused, but this is a good case for
its use
by the way, photobucket gives 134,000 results for a search for "william
payne" because that includes matches on each word individually as well
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