Comments on: “Photos don’t take themselves”

By: Stephen Lovell

Stephen Lovell — Sun, 02 May 2010 09:59:29 +0000

Georgia, I feel your pain. After broadcsting my footage, a local TV station indicted that no contract existed between us. In a very strange twist they have opted to pay me via a third party who was in no way connected with the video.
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By: Ian Bourne

Ian Bourne — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:23:14 +0000

I had the same problem with Heat Magazine in Barbados, but in my case I called the Editor and said if you do it again I want you to place my URL big and bold as I don’t want cash, just people to come to my site – he promised “Yes!” but never use my pics again…

By: Georgia Popplewell sends invoice to Newsday for unauthorized use of blogger’s Thomas Glave photo! « Barbados Free Press

Sat, 01 May 2010 07:43:20 +0000

[...] We’d show you the photo here but Georgia is on an understandable rant about this so we donR… [...]

By: Felix (raz4125)

Felix (raz4125) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:23:42 +0000

Georgia I feel for you and I hope this issue is resolved. Over time I have learnt a few lessons

1. Watermark your pictures: every single one.
2. There are sharks out here who would use your intellectual property for their gain.
3. (This one I learnt lately) Not because a company has a “big” name doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t steal your content and pictures for their gain.

Be warned and protect yourself. Stay strong!

By: Jonathan Ali

Jonathan Ali — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:31:04 +0000

Last year Andre Bagoo asked if he could use one of my photos for a story he was writing for Newsday about the launch of the t+t film festival. I said yes, as long I was credited. Not only did I not get a credit, but the Newsday watermark appeared on the photo. I never followed up on this but I’m glad you did in your case, G. I certainly will do as you have done in the future.

By: TriniGourmet.com » Dem Tiefin’ We?!?: Copyright infringment and the local blogging community

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:22:33 +0000

[...] and printed by Newsday, they had the nerve to slap their OWN watermark on it. Amazing! You can read her account here.ETA (Nov. 13, 2008): Since I originally wrote this article I have learnt that the Express has also [...]

By: Chennette

Chennette — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:53:38 +0000

The Express’ 2nd breach involved taking my photo from another blog (who subsequently credited me after I informed him) – but they never asked that blog-owner permission either. And just because lots of people steal my doubles photo, does not mean that it can be assumed that it is free to use. It was clearly their policy to take freely what they see online.
Not being in the media/photography business however, I have no idea what the going rates are for use of photos from which to assess use/damages – any ideas?

By: Georgia

Georgia — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:25:55 +0000

I’m really sorry to hear that, Josh. It seems that neither the Guardian nor the Express has a particularly good record of making good on their copyright violations. I know of at least one person who was paid by Newsday, however.

I hope your situation is resolved soon.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:18:48 +0000

I feel your pain…

The Trinidad Guardian recently felt the need to use a photo of mine from Grenada Carnival in an article about soca artist Talpree.

Several phone calls and emails went unanswered until mention of my lawyer. I still have not resolved payment as they were hoping to pay me the freelancer rate after publishing and ignoring me.

::sigh::

Best of luck!