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Tobias

Member Since 29 Apr 2005
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In Topic: Reef Keeper Supply using pictures from Miami Rosenstiehl Underwater Photo Com...

28 December 2011 - 02:49 AM

Hey,

just to mention it: Many photo contests have written that you're allowing to publish the pictures for them or third parties as long as the competition and credits are mentioned. You agree to this by submitting your pictures. So, all the sites, talking about the competition and mentioning my name in the credits are not offending in any way, as well as Discovery. In my long search I only found one small blog that didn't had my credits on and that aquarium site. And in the case of the aquarium site they use the picture to commerically sell items. So I see a break of a law here.

Anyway I will try to contact them one more time and if they don't react, I will think about contacting a lawyer.

All the best
Tobias

In Topic: Reef Keeper Supply using pictures from Miami Rosenstiehl Underwater Photo Com...

22 December 2011 - 06:50 AM

Hi John,

many thanks for your comment. Actually I didn't know that they wrote my name as the mouse-over is not working in my Firefox. Just tried it with Safari and it works! :-) So nothing I can blame them with.

In general, I found a lot of pages using my images, but 99% of them feature the Miami University contest, where this picture won Best Overall. So as they all got the image via the University this would be ok, as long as they print my copyright. I found only very little pages that don't. And none of them is for a commercial reason, so I won't do anything regarding them. Only the Reef Keeper Page was using it commercially.

Anyway it's a good idea to contact Discovery and ask them for a story. Maybe they want to have a story about another picture of mine, which recently won Best of Show in Ocean Art. Let see... :-)

http://www.uwphotogr...st-winners-2011

All the best
Tobias

In Topic: Reef Keeper Supply using pictures from Miami Rosenstiehl Underwater Photo Com...

22 December 2011 - 03:02 AM

Just had a look at the USCO site and yes, I find it actually hard to register my images there....especially if you mother language is not english it's hard to read that "law-english".

In Topic: Reef Keeper Supply using pictures from Miami Rosenstiehl Underwater Photo Com...

22 December 2011 - 01:54 AM

Hi,

no problem to register my most important images with the USCO. Just wanted to know the effects of that. What if I register the image after the "crime" happens?

BTW: I found the contest images used at the discovery news webpage as well. Without any relation to the contest not mentioning the author.

http://news.discover...est-110422.html

In Topic: Reef Keeper Supply using pictures from Miami Rosenstiehl Underwater Photo Com...

21 December 2011 - 03:07 PM

Thanks dor the recommendation regarding google images. Didn't know that yet. Used Tineye so far.

Bill, it would be great if you could sent me the link to this aquarium site from portugal, please.

Many thanks in advance.
Tobias

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