I try to be very diligent in attributing credit/ownership to any photo or writings to the true source. I have on several occassions posted photos and attributed them to what I believed to be the source to later learn that source had ‘borrowed’ materials and claimed ownership. If I am ever off regard this please let me know.
Recently, I have come upon this fly photo, I tied and photographed (albeit not to well), on other sites with the ‘SwittersB’ removed and the authors claiming ownership. Those three other fly tiers need to get their stories straight, I believe.
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this is another solution….http://www.thephoblographer.com/2012/05/29/useful-photography-tip-31-how-to-do-a-dmca-takedown-notice-when-someone-steals-your-imagescontent/
the couple of times my artwork migrated i just waited for kharma to be invoked but this would solve the problem once and for all.
Very nice and a good progression on how to handle the matter. Thanks!
Thats a great looking Fly
Thank you Joe. I tied it as a caddis pattern but truth be told I fish it as a dragon pattern on lakes with greater success.
I once had a guy crop my had off a photo of a twenty pound steelhead that I had caught and post it all over the steelhead boards claiming it was his fish. I busted him on westfly over it and those other boards by posting my un-cropped version of the photo.
That is a lot more ballsy than a simple fly pattern!!!
People claiming your photo as theirs?! Seriously? That’s awfully rude. You link them to this post!