Any copyright warriors here?

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nanonyous

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Specifically, someone that could give me some advice on how to go about pursuing a copyright violation on a Russian site who's hosting information is kept private by people that aren't getting back to me?

http://www.goodfon.com/wallpaper/341706.html

The owners of the site haven't gotten back to me after 3+ days and the person that uploaded my photo there even deleted my first comment asking them why they were using my photo without my permission.
 
How did he get it in the first place? Watermark your photos if you don't want them to be used freely...
 
well its a hi res photo

So u much have it slipped out somewhere
 
I have it on flickr where its original size is viewable, though they have the general no-right-clicking thing in place, which as many know is quite useless. I generally don't have an issue with people 'downloading' the images so much as I take issue with people using my images somewhere without my permission with no credit to me whatsoever.

I specifically have the full versions available on flickr not so that it can get 'stolen' but that anyone interested in viewing the larger versions for the sake of deciding whether they'd like to license or not or order a print know what the full-size source material is. Not that I've ever made a cent off any of my photos before.

I'm busy reading up on pursuing this with a DMCA claim. Apparently Russia's legal system is somewhat intolerant of copyright infringement, and that site, if I had to guess, consists of 99.99% copyright infringing articles.
 
to be fair, I think its gonna cost u more time to get that photo removed
 
Every download on that site is profit potential that's been lost which can be claimed for. That and DMCA takedown notices cost me nothing as far as I know - I've had to do it at least once before, though that was via Google for someone that took a different photo of mine and claimed it was theirs on their blog.
 
anyways, its gonna happen again u might want to A. upload smaller images only .B watermark
 
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I may just start doing both, I guess. At the very least a 1024px on long image isn't going to be very desirable for downloading as computer wallpapers, but ought to still be plenty large for 'previewing' purposes.
 
I just used google search by image and found small ones. but that was on orms. so Looks like its just that site only
 
I occasionally look it up. I know for a fact it's in use in other places that don't show on google's reverse image search, though - that photo's been on at least 24 tumblr things while less than 10, I think, now show on google results. If I had to manually go back into my flickr stats on a day by day basis I'd be able to find those tumblr links again and the photo would still be there. I don't mind those though since they not only have my name, but link directly back to the flickr page the image is on.
 
I once got an infringement on YouTube for a unique video made by me and friends back in 2008. The guy accused us from stealing his copyright was a German, who told we removed the start, subtitles and ending of the video. Although we provided proof that it is us in that video, YouTube defaulted the case, but the infringement is still standing against my profile since 2008 and YouTube is not giving any answers. The Guy contacted me within minutes after the upload on Skype and he is still there on my contact list promoting Amazon and ponzi products. This I could never understand… I still firmly believe this idiot successfully trolled us.

Anyway, if you are concerned with your copyright material being stolen and promoted by somebody else. Check with his webhost, some hosts are very helpful in returning rightful ownership. If the thief does not respond, send proof to the hosting company and see how far you can get. They will query their client and they will query their member and the member must then submit proof or be deleted.
 
Oh you've got to be ****ing kidding me...

http://www.goodfon.com/wallpaper/341712.html
http://www.goodfon.com/wallpaper/341720.html

I'm in the process of doing a scan through my online images, and this same person has these two other photos of mine listed as well...

*edit* Fulcrum29, the issue here is that I've sent a request to the registrar for the domain that acts as a whois privacy agent of some sort (I forget the details of how this works) to get the information for the domain out of them, but haven't heard from them either for two or three days now.

Just thought to do a reverse DNS lookup for their .com domain, and it gives this:

178.63.69.163 resolves to
"static.163.69.63.178.clients.your-server.de"
Top Level Domain: "your-server.de"

So unless that's just a proxy, I might be getting somewhere.

I get this if I ping and reverse DNS lookup goodfon.ru

78.46.44.184 resolves to
"goodfon.ru"
Top Level Domain: "goodfon.ru"
Country IP Address: GERMANY
 
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Thats bad joh. later your gonna see all your flickr images up there
 
They've got at least one photo from a flickr contact of mine up there as well - I'm almost certain at this point that they have photos from several of my contacts and people on my favorites list up there... Going to do a reverse image search on some of the most likelies now, actually.

*edit* actually screw it, I've been falling asleep for at least four hours now - sleep now, being aggravated tomorrow.
 
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J0n0 said:
How did he get it in the first place? Watermark your photos if you don't want them to be used freely...
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The problem with watermarking, you need to slap on a big watermark across the whole image, which ruins the photo, in order to try and prevent the guys from stealing the images. I uploaded an image to Facebook with my watermark at the bottom of the image and the guilty party pulled the photo off Facebook, cropped off my watermark and used it on their site without permission. They did credit me for the photo but still used it without my permission.

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Well I just want to say thanks for the nice wallpaper, it's great
 
nanonyous said:
Every download on that site is profit potential that's been lost which can be claimed for. That and DMCA takedown notices cost me nothing as far as I know - I've had to do it at least once before, though that was via Google for someone that took a different photo of mine and claimed it was theirs on their blog.
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What on earth has an American law to do with this? Unless you are just pulling a bluff, but last time I looked South Africa, Russia and Germany were not subject to the DMCA.
 
Digimarc watermarks are embedded ones that aren't visible to the naked eye, but the only thing they're really good for is proving ownership - in the event of a party like this goodfon that doesn't seem to give a single damn about this kind of thing, that doesn't do anything for one :/
 
rwenzori said:
What on earth has an American law to do with this? Unless you are just pulling a bluff, but last time I looked South Africa, Russia and Germany were not subject to the DMCA.
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DMCA has international power, in ways. The image is available for purchase on, at the very least, 500px. That means that as I've given 500px license to sell my image, they are one party that is losing out on potential profit, and they're an American company.

That aside, Russia also has laws against copyright infringement, so whatever the case I'll be finding some way to get them to take, at the very least, my photos down.
 
nanonyous said:
DMCA has international power, in ways. The image is available for purchase on, at the very least, 500px. That means that as I've given 500px license to sell my image, they are one party that is losing out on potential profit, and they're an American company.

That aside, Russia also has laws against copyright infringement, so whatever the case I'll be finding some way to get them to take, at the very least, my photos down.
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Yes, you can take action in terms of the local country's laws. So could this 500px.

But not the DMCA unless the infringing material is hosted in the US or by a US company - otherwise the DMCA is useful only for wiping one's arse. As much as America would like to think so, people in other countries are not subject to American law.

Now AFAIK your-server.de is a Hetzner domain, so why not try complaining to their abuse line. Just in terms of copyright infringement, not the DMCA.


BTW - lots of great wallpapers on that site. :)
 
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