Credit SHOULD Be Given Where Credit is Due

Like what I said in my other blog, I love taking pictures. I just don't like it when others use them (and even crop or do some changes!!) without my permission. So far I have seen two blogs use the shot; the first blogger has acknowledged my ownership ...

I would love to be sharing my shots, but I want credit to be given where credit is due. I could go on and on about this (legal stuffs, property rights, etcetera), but I just want to point out that I respect other person's properties (both online and offline), so I was expecting others to do the same thing.

Anyway, here's the shot: (it's not really amazing, so wondering why it was copied...)
As you can see, the original shot has been cropped (took out my mark).

Not trying to pick a fight here (in fact, I wasn't even the one who started this, the copying-someone-else's-picture-without-the-owner's-permission thingy, and being asked if I was really the owner! ha.). I just hope that everyone understands my predicament, and why I am posting this. Somehow I was just ticked off when the ownership concern was raised. It was normal to be asking if I really owned the shot, sure, but what really got to me was when she said that she wasn't going to change her Wordless Wednesday post just so "YOU WOULD BE HAPPY".

Oh. My. Goodness. I wasn't trying to make myself happy. I just wanted credit for my picture! I certainly did not ask her to copy my shot, in the first place! What saddens me, is that she seems to be a Pinay, too, like me.

Oh well. Hard Lesson learned, for me. Friendly reminder for everyone who loves taking pictures and don't want their pictures to be used without their permission:

There are other ways, but that's the easiest, I guess. :)

Learn From My Experience!

What a way to start your day, huh? Finding your shot being copied by another blogger and when you want that she give you credit ... she gets angry! i've got the hard copy (exif data), if she wants more proof. but is it worth it? hahaha ...

Can't stop blogging about that experience since it's the first time (yup, my first time) I've encountered something like that. I've had my shots copied while I was at a photoblog and the admin intervened, together with the other photobloggers at that site (fotothing.com). It's different with blogspot, though ...

It might take a while before I get this out of my system ... but i guess some people are really like that (blatant disregard for some people's property).

Definitely a painful (and somewhat funny, since she was the one who got angry! LOL) lesson learned, for me.

Oh well.

Reminder for everyone: Place your mark on your shots where it's not easy to erase, or crop! If possible, in the center, if you don't want it to be copied and used by anyone else without your permission.

Just don't tell me i didn't warn you, folks! :D