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Originally Posted by Jen
Well im guessing she liked the pic Mike 
What if you put a pic on your desk top is that bad too? cause if it is i have stolen a lot of pics from you guys in here oops hehehehe
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No of course that's fine - you're not claiming it to be something you took
It's interesting reading everyone's takes on it and their previous experiences.
To be honest, I'm really NOT that concerned or angered by it. At the time I thought "how dare they!" but I knew full well it had probably happened in the past and I'd never known about it.
The fact that someone alerted me to this one, meant it was worth sending a few emails to try and get it taken down. To their credit, Yahoo Copyright Infringement did get back to me via email, but by that time the photo had already been taken down so there was nothing they can do, and even though I pointed out that the rest of the stream was likely stolen too, that wasn't really their concern. They had to wait for the legitimate authors to complain - how would Yahoo know that permission wasn't given? They certainly couldn't know.
I've given permission plenty of times for photos of mine to be used by people on the web, without payment etc. But they asked for permission, which is great!
If people want to steal my work, there's really not a lot I can do about it. I just don't have the time or energy to put into protecting it with massive watermarks that look horrible, tiny thumbnail versions etc.
I can understand that people in the BUSINESS of photography, who make a living from selling photos, have to do everything they can to protect their work. I'm certain I'd probably do the same in that case.