There using my photo ( which is a bit of a lol )

EYEREX · 29 Sep 2009 at 14:45

Was just on one of my Twitters when someone posted a story about Croydon in bloom which as i live in Croydon and posted a story on my blog a while ago about how funny it was i went to have a look.........

Well when the page opened there at the top was a photo of a banner which looked familiar as it's not an everyday photo someone would take but i sat there thinking maybe it was just a coincidence, well after a closer look yes it was the photo i took as if you look at the photo you can see what i changed before i posted it lol

Link

reflux · 29 Sep 2009 at 14:47

Haha, brilliant, thievery backfires!

john_s · 29 Sep 2009 at 14:55

1: Take screenshot.
2: Send invoice for unauthorised use of your photo.

gord · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:06

GravyMonster · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:11

Excellent

Tripnologist · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:27

haha. That is a joke

daz · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:30

Brilliant

PhillyDee · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:32

Hehe

dangerstat · 29 Sep 2009 at 17:36

What did you change the "what a joke" bit? :confused:

GravyMonster · 30 Sep 2009 at 08:48

Check under the 'discover a greener borough' line

tbz_ck · 30 Sep 2009 at 10:36

Hehehee

Charge them for it....

Jono · 30 Sep 2009 at 10:48

Oh i see

gord · 30 Sep 2009 at 12:22

So c'mon, what correspondence have you had with them?

EYEREX · 30 Sep 2009 at 15:11

just phoned 24 Dash who just told me they got the info from a press release sent to them from croydon enterprise who also have it up on there site so just phoned them and there going to get back to me

didn't say anything about the bit i changed

EYEREX · 30 Sep 2009 at 15:30

update croydon enterprise have taken the photo down so has Dash24

EYEREX · 30 Sep 2009 at 16:08

Croydon Enterprise just phoned me back and said there very sorry for using the photo without my permission and they have removed it from there site

I said i'm still not happy as under copyright laws it's classed a theft and under the terms of there site it says they own all images and there copyrighted so i want to take this farther so someone from there press office is going to phone me tomorrow

slylittlefox · 30 Sep 2009 at 22:22

EYEREX said:
I said i'm still not happy as under copyright laws it's classed a theft and under the terms of there site it says they own all images and there copyrighted so i want to take this farther so someone from there press office is going to phone me tomorrow

Think that's a bit much - they've taken it down, promptly - why not be happy with that? We all make mistakes

(My attitude would be different if they had made money directly from it)

gord · 30 Sep 2009 at 22:53

slylittlefox said:
Think that's a bit much - they've taken it down, promptly - why not be happy with that? We all make mistakes

(My attitude would be different if they had made money directly from it)

I'd hope he is just making the sweat a little bit. Teach em a moral lesson, and not actually try to wrangle some money out of them.

whitecrook · 30 Sep 2009 at 23:21

EYEREX said:
I said i'm still not happy as under copyright laws it's classed a theft

I don't think it is. If you're going to get technical, at least be correct.

NathanT · 1 Oct 2009 at 02:15

Haha, nice find.

I think what EYEREX means was that they used his intellectual property and put it on their site and claimed that the image was their own under their site copyright agreement. This would (in the very grey world of internet law) constitute as theft.

Using the image (maybe with or without permission) on their site they would have to annotate the image to state that its owned by another party and not copyrighted under their site laws.