I am sorry to go back to the issue of the plagiarism so soon. But I am sick to my teeth. It all started with Tineye. If you put in your image URL in their search engine they suggest images that are similar to yours. I tried my Big Ben Parliament House image first. It comes first on Google Image Search. Tineye showed an exact match of my image with a page from the Daily Swarm. The Daily Swarm plagiarized my image.
Mridula,
We’ve removed your picture from the site and apologize for it’s usage.
Andrew Flanagan
Editor, The Daily Swarm
They used my image since July 06,2009 and removed it today. And it looks like a commercial website. And they think that reply is an adequate compensation. I wonder how many other images at The Daily Swarm are plagiarized.
When caught they act like a I don’t want to use the word but you know what. I know I can’t win them all but I can for sure vent them all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use stfu n00b.
It was a copyrighted image which as far as I can see was used by a commercial website. Where the hell is fair use in it anonymous from most probably The Daily Swarm.
And if it was fair use why like a thief The Daily Swarm changed at the first email? Fair use my foot.
Im definitely not from daily swarm, and I think you're being really petty. I'm so sure it was their intent to make money off your blurry picture of a public building in england.
The Daily Swarm anonymous plagiarizing anonymous I have the editors email. And go google yourself. You are on the first page with this post for relevant keywords.
Recently Chennaionline lifted by Police car photo from net…. After complaining they removed my image, only to replace it with another pic lifted from internet… Also got an email from them that they've removed my photograph
Again…
Shrinidhi I also wonder if it is the same in this case too.Yes Tarun.
How can one prevent this? Is there any solution?
Chitra not an easy one. Uploading low resolution images is one solution.
hmm… sad. what to tell you…! the daily swarm, never heard of them. probably a wasted portal.
Rocksea I too thought so but they have high Alexia ranking.