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Originally Posted by hotspur
...[I]ts not very nice have your work stolen like that.
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Unless they blowtorched her safe and ran off with the negatives, it wasn't theft. She still has the original, in whatever format.
We haven't heard their side of the story yet. Perhaps they found the copy they used on a public domain site. She herself may have uploaded it there. It may well be a case of non-deliberate, unwitting copyright violation.
But one thing we do know is that it wasn't theft, because nothing was actually stolen. Copying isn't theft. It may not be legal in many circumstances, but it's not theft.