Beyond the obvious

Stephen Baker, the same member of the Fuji website has stolen yet another photo from Trekearth and used it in the current Fuji competition. I believe Fuji are dealing with the issue. Fuji have now removed the image from the competition website and replaced it with another winner. See my previous post . This story is being picked up all over the net. We have to do something to increase awareness about copyright infringement. Thanks to everyone that emailed Fuji about this and it's good to see they've responded promptly. Cheers, Paul www.indigo2photography.co.uk

Click on the image above to see the large version. This shot was stolen from here and used to win second place in a Fujifilm competition . We all know that images get stolen from the Internet but two recent examples really take the cake. A certain Stephen Baker from Essex appears to have stolen an image, taken by Pamela DG, from a popular photo-sharing site and used it to win second place in a Fujifilm online competition. The prize money he is accused of fraudulently obtaining is £200 pounds. It is unbelievable that people think they can steal photographer's images from the Internet and use them for their own purposes. Another much publicised case revolves around images plagiarised from a popular flickr photographer. The company that allegedly stole them produced canvas prints and sold them for a healthy profit without the photographer knowing anything about it. The whole thing erupted into a bit of a dispute with flickr but that has all settled down now. The heart of the is...