OMG, I AM SO FREAKIN' MAD!

[Gunner19]

Feel sorry about your situation. No photographers would want this to happen to them. Best to watermark your photos so that no one can steal them and say it's theirs.

 

[Schramm]

You do know you and your photos are protected under copyright law, right? I am a mirror designer and I make antique mirror glass. I get photos stolen off my site all the time and they use them on their sites. It cost me a whopping $25 to have an attorney send a cease and desist letter to them and they are normally back off. If they proceed to use your material without a letter releasing the photos they are actually liable to compensate you for your time AND they still have to get the pics off. I won a suit for theft of property such as this 2 years ago for $9000 (all they did is use my photos for a period of about 6 months - 5 photos), judge said that he felt that the profits that they made in that time were directly due to my photos selling there work. They are not banko!

 

[raryke]

Ive had this happen to me before too and I dont even consider myself a pro. Someone was stealing my images of sea turtles and making them into iphone wallpapers and selling them for $3