Notice of infringement

[sabellachan]

Currently: Annoyed.

So I signed into Flickr a few days ago, and notice I have new comments. I go to check out the comments and notice that one user had faved a few of my photos (including this one) and left a comment on one of them. "Oh cool," I thought. I like to see what other users do, so when someone faves my stuff, I like to check out their

Comments

[cheerio_x9]

I don't understand her comments... I am not sure if she's being polite or bitchy either :/ it seems like she thinks that by commenting on your page, she is asking for permission to post your picture, and you saying thank you is the permission that she was asking for?

This happened to me when I was in high school too. Someone took a picture that I digitally drew and put it on her xanga as her profile picture (this was when xanga was big!). I emailed her to notify her and ask her to take it down (politely) and she basically flipped out and made up some lame excuse that her friend created her layout for her that's why she didn't know. blah blah.

[sabellachan]

Yeah, I don't understand the girl's comments either. She's definitely not a native English speaker (she states she's from Istanbul, Turkey). Maybe she thinks that leaving comments on someone's page is how to ask for permission, but even if it was, you still need to give credit where it's due.

Hopefully this mess sorts itself out. I'm just glad it's not a huge life-altering deal, cause I really have too much going on to babysit this! :P

[unmei_no_yume]

That's terrible! That makes me mad. *grumble*

I don't know whether or not to believe this person. There is just too much art thievery going on online now. I'm not sure 'not knowing the American culture' is a good enough excuse partially because it's a pretty international idea that posting other people's art w/o their permission and w/o crediting the original artist is WRONG. And if she deleted some comments that's a sign she's not being truthful.

You definitely should report her if you haven't already and make sure those other artists do the same.

And yes I said artists - I know you're technically photographers but that's still a form of art =P

[sabellachan]

I agree, I don't think "not knowing American culture" is a suitable excuse. I've already reported her to Yahoo, so hopefully something will come of it. Another one of the photographers I've notified has also done so, and I think I might send that information along to the other photographer I got in contact with.

She claims she speaks English and German, but lives in Turkey... Maybe I should find someone who speaks German and/or Turkish (cause she clearly doesn't understand that much English) to write her a comment, so she gets it? Hehe...

[princessashelia]

Good thing that got settled! That would irritate me.