The other day a friend came across a Myspace page where her modeling photography was being displayed as someone else’s work. She did a double take and then looked again, yup still there and the person had even gone to to the trouble of cropping out her logo and using his own. The audacity!? She wasn’t sure what to do, the guy wasn’t directly profiting off her work, he was using it in his portfolio. When directly emailed about it, she never got a response but after a few days, when she returned to his site the pictures were mysteriously gone leaving us to wonder if any of the guys work was his own. Whatever the case, it worked.
In this case the person was out of the country with no way to actively get in touch. Even if the person had been here, sometimes it’s more costly and time consuming than it’s worth to track down everyone stealing your content.
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