What can I do if I find my picture used on a website that it shouldn't be on, they stole it off of another website

[fireflytx 0]

HELP! Does anyone know what I can do? I am pictured on Pltinum Stages with my permission modeling their product and another site stole pictures off of their site of for some shitty lap dance chess club. WTF??????? What can I do. I tried emailing but I am getting no response.

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[justinb138 0]

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HELP! Does anyone know what I can do? I am pictured on Pltinum Stages with my permission modeling their product and another site stole pictures off of their site of for some shitty lap dance chess club. WTF??????? What can I do. I tried emailing but I am getting no response.

Have a lawyer send 'em a good old C & D.

[Nightingale 0]

When someone stole my photo, I emailed their web host and explained that the site was using copyrighted images without permission, and that I demanded the images be removed immediately.

They emailed me back and asked me to prove it. I sent them a link to my site, which has "all content and images copyright Kris Koenig, 2005. Do not use without written permission" across the bottom of every page. The next day, the photo was gone from that website.

If there's no copyright notice on the original site, email them and ask them to put one.

[Armour666 0]

easier way is send a Digital Millennium Copyright Act letter if they do not respond then you can get their ISP to remove it.

Now only problem is if you signed or gave permesion for some one eils to take the pictures and use them then you are not the copy right holder.

SO this one time at band camp.....

"Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most."

[mnealtx 0]

*well, at least they have good taste in subjects, right?*

On to the serious stuff... the photographer and possibly the website have copyright on the images, depending on the contract between them for the photos. They should be able to contact the other website and demand the photos be removed.

Good luck!!

Mike
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[Michele 1]

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On to the serious stuff... the photographer and possibly the website have copyright on the images, depending on the contract between them for the photos. They should be able to contact the other website and demand the photos be removed.

Also, depending upon the model release used, she might have copyright as well. The model release will spell it out; mostly, I use complete release model releases, meaning I can do what I want with those shots without the model's permission: sell them, post them, change them, alter them, et cetera. But it does depend on the release signed. For minors the release is different, but that's not the situation we are talking about here.

Ciels-
Michele

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