Warning about Stolen Photo's

ChrisHall

Here is a warning to all aviation photographers,

There is a person called Nathan Blair who is stealing photographs and posting them on his Instagram account as @blairaviation He is also adding his own watermark to the stolen images and adding comments as to where HE took the photos. If you have an Instsgram account, you are able to make comments, so if you recognise any stolen images on his account, challenge him an report him.

*update*

his original account has been removed from instagram, and he now has a new one

http://instagram.com/blair.aviation/

Chris Hall

Airport Data Admin Team

ChrisHall

I have recently come across one of my photos that has been stolen form this site and posted elsewhere with the watermark and copyright bar removed by recropping the image. I have now made the decision to move the watermark on all my photos so it is across the centre of the image.

If any member feels that they need to protect their images, you can move the watermark in the member section, go into "Account Info" and you can then move the position of the watermark. This will move the watermark on all your images in one go, you do not need to do each individual image

Chris Hall

Admin team

bigmarkus

hi chris in this site there is user that have stolen a photo , and probably not just one ! i'm checking , but at the moment the photo id AC1184997 of user fabber 87 is stolen from Jetphotos site , and the foto was taks by my friend aldo bidini. You can check by searching in jetphotos the serial of aw139 oer the name of photgrafer aldo bidini or just follow this link : https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/7681868

thanks a lot forr banner this stupid user.

ChrisHall

The photo of MM81815 has been removed from this site, thanks for the notification

TroyWhite

I have recently come across one of my photos that has been stolen form this site and posted elsewhere with the watermark and copyright bar removed by recropping the image. I have now made the decision to move the watermark on all my photos so it is across the centre of the image.

If any member feels that they need to protect their images, you can move the watermark in the member section, go into "Account Info" and you can then move the position of the watermark. This will move the watermark on all your images in one go, you do not need to do each individual image

Chris Hall

Admin team

ssue a DMCA takedown notice. Consider the following situation. You find out that your image is being used without permission. You contact the site administrator.

topgunphotography

I have recently come across one of my photos that has been stolen form this site and posted elsewhere with the watermark and copyright bar removed by recropping the image. I have now made the decision to move the watermark on all my photos so it is across the centre of the image.

If any member feels that they need to protect their images, you can move the watermark in the member section, go into "Account Info" and you can then move the position of the watermark. This will move the watermark on all your images in one go, you do not need to do each individual image

Chris Hall

Admin team

People give me crap all the time for putting the watermark across the middle of the plane, but this is the exact reason why. Sure someone can still remove it by cloning it out, but it will be a lot more difficult to and might not be worth it.