Hating Pps Spread! Warning! Protect Your Images!
RuiMLopes
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As I find it useful to all of us , hereby, I repeat a warning I post at NikonCafe forum, so you may be aware of what the said popular PPS are doing with our photos:
“Flowery Streets” is a popular biennial event, whose tradition dates back to the nineteenth century. It consists in the decoration of the streets of the village of Redondo (Alentejo) with thousands of flowers and other items drawn on colored paper.
The residents of each street choose their theme. The preparation of this event usually begins in November, The inhabitants of each street decide the street theme, which will be kept in strict confidence until the day that they begin the decoration of the streets.
During the months following the first meetings, hundreds of people work every day with dedication and commitment However , the only prize to their task is the recognition of visitors.
I´ve been there shooting the event two years ago. The following week, based on positive backup from PBase members I sent an unprotected link to someone at the local City Hall, inviting them to use the it into their WEB site . Never got a word from them. However, a couple of months later, I´ve started to notice an unusual nr. of visitors to the related PBase galleries. One day, I´ve got about 4.000 visitors!
A couple of months ago, I finally realized what happened. A friend sent me a so called PPS along with a comment on the beauty of the event and of the pics. When I opened it, I realized that ALL the shots were mine! I believe that those “Redondo pics” went around the world…without my consent…
This kind of piracy is increasing more and more. It´s not a good feeling. However, I thought that it may be useful to tell you the story and… to share the ORIGINAL images with you, my friends. You deserve it more than others:
My stolen images are at: http://www.slideshare.net/1950/redondo-festa-das-flores
Despite my several messages asking them to remove it, they are still there. All the several complaint messages sent by other Nikon Cafe members (and mine too) are sistematically deleted. Shameless peole over there keep this kind of behaviour.
That´s why, I decided to post here this warning: protect yourselves; watermark your pictures. And, if you wish, feel free to send them your complaints flagging their behaviour. This shameless WEB piracy is spreading more and more through those ridiculous PPS.!
“Flowery Streets” is a popular biennial event, whose tradition dates back to the nineteenth century. It consists in the decoration of the streets of the village of Redondo (Alentejo) with thousands of flowers and other items drawn on colored paper.
The residents of each street choose their theme. The preparation of this event usually begins in November, The inhabitants of each street decide the street theme, which will be kept in strict confidence until the day that they begin the decoration of the streets.
During the months following the first meetings, hundreds of people work every day with dedication and commitment However , the only prize to their task is the recognition of visitors.
I´ve been there shooting the event two years ago. The following week, based on positive backup from PBase members I sent an unprotected link to someone at the local City Hall, inviting them to use the it into their WEB site . Never got a word from them. However, a couple of months later, I´ve started to notice an unusual nr. of visitors to the related PBase galleries. One day, I´ve got about 4.000 visitors!
A couple of months ago, I finally realized what happened. A friend sent me a so called PPS along with a comment on the beauty of the event and of the pics. When I opened it, I realized that ALL the shots were mine! I believe that those “Redondo pics” went around the world…without my consent…
This kind of piracy is increasing more and more. It´s not a good feeling. However, I thought that it may be useful to tell you the story and… to share the ORIGINAL images with you, my friends. You deserve it more than others:
My stolen images are at: http://www.slideshare.net/1950/redondo-festa-das-flores
Despite my several messages asking them to remove it, they are still there. All the several complaint messages sent by other Nikon Cafe members (and mine too) are sistematically deleted. Shameless peole over there keep this kind of behaviour.
That´s why, I decided to post here this warning: protect yourselves; watermark your pictures. And, if you wish, feel free to send them your complaints flagging their behaviour. This shameless WEB piracy is spreading more and more through those ridiculous PPS.!
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Thanks for the suggestion. However, I believe that unfortunately it is too late.
Actually, when I kept aware that the pictures were stolen from my PBase galleries, I immediately deleted the gallery but the images were already copied by the thieves to their own web sites.
Right now, I re-opened a gallery under the same theme at Smugmug, protected against "right-click".
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You should be aware that right-click protection is not really protection at all. It can be easily and quickly circumvented.
See http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2008/07/04/right-click-protection-and-image-security/.
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A combo of rt-clik protection and watermarking + copyrighting is the best for internet published images and that still does not stop the dedicated theif.
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I suggest that if you contact them with a certified* letter asking them to "cease and desist" the hosting of the images at:
http://www.slideshare.net/1950/redondo-festa-das-flores
... that you may be able to get them to help. You may have to prove ownership of the images but that can be as simple as proving that you posted the images on a date that pre-dates their hosting of the images.
If you don't get any action you may have to have an attorney draft something, but at least that contact information should get you somewhere.
Good luck.
*Errata: I first mentioned "registered" mail, but "certified" mail is what I meant and is the correct method. You just need a record that you sent the letter and, ideally you also want a "return receipt" showing that they received the letter.
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Isn't this the perfect situation to use a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice?
A very good explanation with step-by-step illustrations of issuing a DCMA takedown notice is at http://www.naturescapes.net/docs/index.php/articles/314
Good luck and SOCK IT TO THEM!
Jerry
Thank you so much for your suggestion! I´ll contact them tomorrow and will see what happens....
Not sure if I´m prepared to face a legal fight because of this but, at least, I´ll write them!
Thanks again.
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REALLY GREAT ADVICE! I wasn´t aware of this. Tomorrow I´ll prepare my request to them.
Many Thanks.
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pps = power points. Some people use to still images from others, insert it in pps and send the same to friends and relatives who re-transmit it over and over throughout the world .Friends often love to share it as a sign of friendness...
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awe didn't even consider power points lol. Like I said before just shows how people in general don't value photography as an art form as much as say painting. so sad in my estimation.
Thank you for asking this before I got to the bottom of page two. If you're going to use an acronym, please use the actual full word description first, so people know what you're talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPS
Now that it has been put into context, I see that pps in this instance is referring to "power point show".
Good luck in your dealings with pair and slideshare!