I will phone him later and tell him what??..HELP!

Konrad

What I would do is call the fellow and tell him you don't like him using your photos and if he doesn't remove them you will publish on other blogs and sites that he is misrepresenting what he has for sale by using photo's of your trees. I think that's about all that you can do about it.

Of course someone may know more than I do about these things, so don't take mine as the last word

Email Kijiji about the ad and ask them to remove the pictures.

Terry

I have notified Kijiji before I posted here but have no reply yet.
As you said, taking pictures out of websites and using it for
your gain and profit is not acceptable, people like this to my eye
are pretty low class in our society.
This is fraud and misleading he's customers.
I don't mind giving out pictures ....have done several time's
but they have asked first and when published I get credited.
In no way someone should profit on your pictures.

Kathy, yes I can ask him on the site but better yet I thought I will call him
and ask directly, sure love to go out and look at these trees..LOL.
Who knows, maybe he has no trees himself...are some nurseries missing any?????
Oh by the way..I found other ads somewhere, he also is picking up unwanted vehicles.
I'll wait a couple of day's.

Konrad

You can read the terms of service by clicking on it at the bottom of any page. I frequent another garden forum site far more regularly now (where photos are are individually copyrighted), but the change here at GW hasn't scared me away, just made me a bit more cautious. BTW, technically, they could sell your email address too, although I don't think they have yet, and couldn't say if they ever intend too; but it is a legal option for them. I encourage everyone to use a disposable email address on your GW member page, just in case.

Back to the case at hand, Konrad, I haven't heard of iVillage selling anything posted on these forums, and I sincerely doubt they have (or will). But it would be legal if they decide to. If you still have the original photo(s) in question, that would be uncropped or unreduced in file size, or the film negative or photo, that is your best evidence of thievery. It cannot be disputed. If you contact this Kevin again, I would make this very clear.

OR

Ask him to give you credit. E.g. At the bottom of the ad a line, "Photo by Konrad"

OR

In the future be sure that a copyright "Photo By Konrad" is lightly screened over the picture. This takes some effort to remove, and he will likely take some one elses.

More general safeguards:

1. In addition to a text label on the pic itself, make sure you are listed as the photographer and copyright holder in the meta data inside the pic. Sure it can be removed, but it is one more step a thief has to take. And using it as a search term in Google Images will usually find the image.

2. Never publish a full sized image on the web. Always resize down somewhat or crop. In the event of an ownership dispute, having the full resolution uncropped image can be proof that the original was yours.

3. If you take 40 pix of something to get a decent one, keep a couple of the also rans. This is also proof that you were the original photographer. You can show a photo session including other pics. This lends credibility to your claim.

Konrad