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We were planning to use the attached picture in an ad in Wendy’s magazine. It’s a low resolution picture downloaded using the “Save Photo” feature from this web site:



This is the email I received this morning from a guy who was going to run an image I had taken at the American Rottweiler Club's National Specialty in a magazine. He had found it in a SmugMug Gallery that was posted by the folks who hosted the show with the note that they were for viewing only and referred folks to my commercial site for purchasing. He wrote because the editor of the magazine contacted me and asked if he (and several other people) had permission to use the images in advertising.

Now, aside from the ridiculousness of using a low-rez image in a magazine ad, I'm stunned by the brazen admission that he had simply stolen the image by right-clicking on it. Maybe he had read the article that Preston referred to about how photographers should offer their products for free. Maybe he's just dumb as dirt. But regardless, I informed him -- rather nicely -- that he could not use my image unless he paid for my image. I linked him to my site where he can purchase it and notified the publisher of the magazine that nobody currently has permission to use that image in advertising.

Do the rest of you find this behavior as obnoxious as I do? I'm not surprised that folks would do it but I am amazed that they would admit that they do it. And try to run it in a magazine!!

Jim

Jim Garvie
www.jagphoto.biz