Image Hijacking on the Internet.

Jul 10, 2008 08:46


Thought I'd take a moment write a post about this topic as it came up yesterday.  I was contacted by a model last night who was in a panic because she discovered that someone had created a profile in her name, using pictures of her, on a membership website without her knowledge or consent.  The pictures were taken by a friend of hers and that ( Read more... )

stealing images, model rights, image copyright, photographer rights, image hijacking

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vyl8 July 11 2008, 03:46:39 UTC
For a while there was a website that took a bunch of the members of MM and copied their profiles and pictures directly on their website, even using the member's email own addresses. Depending on the website and if it was the same one, she may be able to use the "resend password" option on the new site and the password may be sent to her email account.

Here is the thread on it:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=273956

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