Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Okay, I'm....puzzled?

Flickr tells me when someone new is following my photostream, and I usually click over to theirs to see if they have interesting pictures, because they quite often do! :)

Today I've got a notice that this person has followed me, and amidst a bunch of nature photography on his photostream, he's posted....one of my pictures of Cairo?  (My original is here.)With no reference to the fact that it's not his picture?

It's not even one of my better pictures of Cairo!  I'm thinking he can't be meaning to claim it as his own, or he wouldn't be following my photostream and attracting my attention.  Maybe he thinks this is like Tumblr, and is trying to re-post content he likes?  In that case, are any of the pictures on his photostream pictures he's taken?


This is just weird.

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Also weird:  The 10cm of snow we got yesterday, which I'm really hoping melts today!

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  1. Oh how strange is that? And the fact is, all his other photos are of scenery, so why a little doll (lovely and cute as she is) in the middle of all those? But you could be right and he thinks that you repost those you like from other people, though it's a bit strange. I wonder too if some of his aren't taken by him...especially those that are a different size. A couple of years back there was a guy on Facebook posting photos of one of my BJDs with the heading "my new doll", no explanation, and everyone was congratulating him on HIS 'new doll'....I sent him a message asking him about it, but of course he just ignored me. And he never took the photo down either. I wanted to report him to Facebook but couldn't fathom out the correct way to do so.
    I do wonder though, what happens to our photos when we post them on places like Flickr. I recently bought a purse (wallet) at a proper shop here in Spain, and it has a photo, front and back, of a couple of obviously customised Blythes. I wondered where the photo had come from....it certainly doesn't look like a stock photo. It was probably stolen from Flickr or somewhere too.

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    1. That is so weird! I can't see what he would get out of claiming to own a doll he doesn't have..... sometimes people are very strange. o_0

      I've seen things like that as well; there was a rather well-known case not long ago where a dating site grabbed pictures off the internet - but one of them was of a teenager who'd committed suicide. It's baffling that they don't just buy some stock art or take their own pictures!

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  2. It's really strange .. perhaps just a mistake when he dropped some other photos in his flickr ?? I think that it can be a good idea to put a tag like a signature on the photos so that you and the other persons can recognize your signature. Hope your problem will be solved soon. Best wishes from France.

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    1. I do use a small watermark on my current pictures (LMA in the bottom left hand corner), but sadly I hadn't done that for that picture.

      It does me no harm that he has a rather bad picture I took on his photostream; I was mostly just puzzled as to why one would do that! LOL

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  3. Hmm, when I see things like this on flickr, I block'em and 'relieve' them of my photo. I think he's chosen that pic because of the colors -- they are very similar to others he's taken (or 'taken') around that time -- bright yellows and blues. But yeah, I'd be uncomfortable with that...
    I'm lazy about watermarking, and I dislike how it looks, but mysticat has a good point. It will make it harder for this to happen or easier to prove when it does.

    We will not talk about snow. If we do not talk about it, it never happened. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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    1. I think I'll probably block him, just because I find the whole thing makes me a little uneasy, but it does me no harm if he has the picture there, I guess!

      I have been watermarking more recent pictures, with LMA in the bottom righthand corner, but perhaps I should make it a little more noticeable. That's an older picture, and I wasn't doing it then.

      LOL If that will make the snow go away, I'm good with it! ;)

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  4. I doubt he would mix up tumblr and flickr, especially as flickr has that button that says "favourite" if he really wants to refer back to your photo. That and in order to put your photo in his flickr gallery, he would have to save it to his computer and upload it to flickr manually. So already that looks a little dodgy to me. You could confront him about it or report him to flickr. I am not sure how flickr handles complaints of that nature as I've never had to do that myself. Either way, I think it's wrong of him to have your photo in his gallery and misleading as there is no credit to you and people would assume he took that photo himself. Plus, I am pretty sure it's against flickr's term of use anyway. You can only upload photos that belong to you/ that you photographed yourself or have full copyright on.

    I also agree with the watermark/signature on photos. I have it on all of mine and I never upload the larger size image to any site.

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    1. That is very true about the saving and uploading. Most odd. I looked up the process, and Flickr doesn't handle it. Instead Yahoo does, and you have to mail a physical letter to them, and all this other stuff. Since he's not making any money off of it, I'll probably just block him and ignore it.

      I've been using a watermark (though a subtle one) on newer pictures, so hopefully that means they are safe from stuff like this. People are just odd sometimes....

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