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Originally Posted by Gemini2544
As a wedding & portrait photographer for 25 years ( Now retired) I can tell you that the world wide copyright laws are not in forcable or do the police inforce these laws. I had many of my works stolen & one beutiful nude i did of a model on a Harley was pinched by a phone sex company.
The only way you can stop this on line is to put a water mark on your image right in the centre.
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I would disagree with that. They are indeed enforcable, but you are right, police will not help.
You need to issue the company / persons a formal notice of intent, that if the work is not removed you will proceed with legal action. Email is a valid form of communication and notice. If they do not adhere to the request then you can hire legal representation in the country of origin and proceed.
In the case of the phone sex company, I would have definatley proceeded with legal action as they would have gained significant profit from your image. The hard part and why legal action is not worth it, is it costs you and then you have to proove they have substantially profited from it. If they haven't, you won't win. They would argue it was their service not the picture that earned them profit, you would argue their business is substantiated solely on the image.
More people should push especially on the net, for their copyrights to be upheld, if we don't then the game is already lost, we should all start grabbing images and calling them our own and start trying to profit off them.
