Thread: They stole my photos - did they steal yours?

Several of the photos in this youtube video were stolen from my web site. There were several showing Turkish dancers in performances I saw in 2000, and there's one of me.

In the link below, click on the text title at the top of the box that says "YouTube - Şımarık -Tarkan (Kiss kiss Remix)" rather than clicking on the arrow in the middle of the image.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nDbZAVeuw]YouTube - Şımarık -Tarkan (Kiss kiss Remix)[/ame]

There are a bunch of photos here of dancers I don't know. Is one of them you?

If you have a login on youtube and your copyrighted photo is one of the images in this "slide show", you can submit a complaint to youtube using this link: http://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

it says it is no longer available. maybe they took it down.

who made this video? was it Tarkan or someone just using his song and your website photos and videos?

Click the title of the vid. The person who posted this has disabled embedding. this is a photo montage set to Tarkin's song. I think I recognized Sandra at the end as well as Shira with a sword!

{{{HUGS}}}

The video is no longer accessible, I can only imagine though-hopefully none of you will pop up anywhere else.

Originally Posted by RatedTotalPackage

The video is no longer accessible,

It's actually still there. Click on the text title at the top of the box in my original message, NOT on the arrow in the middle of the image. That will take you to it.

I see it now, didn't watch the entire thing, but I'm thinking none of those people probably know that there pictures are being used on it.

I'm sure he didn't ask Tom Cruise ..g.: Or Tarkan for that matter...

MEISSOUN

It looks like Najia of PA is at the 1:19 mark.

I think I saw Nourhan Sharif in there too!

lazy stealer people annoy the %$@* out of me.

This looks like something made in someone's basement - it does not look professional...

bad remix + stealing pics + abuse of the Ken Burns effect in iMovie =

Eh, it's no different than fans making fanvids with random porn off the internet, or clips from TV shows, only crappier than most. Nobody's making any money out of it. It's like scrapbooking.

It has been taken down now with the explination that there is a third party copyright complaint.

Glad to see it taken down.

Originally Posted by zumarrad

Eh, it's no different than fans making fanvids with random porn off the internet, or clips from TV shows, only crappier than most. Nobody's making any money out of it. It's like scrapbooking.

This my take on it, too. If it were being associated with something offensive or skeezy, I would complain. If it is just a "movie scrapbook" kind of thing, I wouldn't get my hackles up.

Shira, is there anything on your site that people do NOT want to steal? I guess it just shows how rockin' you are.

Originally Posted by zumarrad

Eh, it's no different than fans making fanvids with random porn off the internet, or clips from TV shows, only crappier than most. Nobody's making any money out of it. It's like scrapbooking.

I see your point, and I agree that this particular clip was inoffensive. And yes, I realize that the person who created it was probably not making any money off it. However...

I don't know whether it would apply to this particular situation, but in the U.S. the law pretty much says that if you don't enforce your intellectual property by objecting when it is used without your permission, then you lose the right to enforce it. In other words, you need to be consistent. If you let some people use your stuff without asking them to stop, then you lose the right to demand that other people stop.

For that reason, I always ask people who infringe my copyright to stop infringing.

I see your point, Shira, but in the area of "transformative works" most copyright holders don't bother. It's a massive grey area. Most television and film companies do not enforce copyright over stills and very short clips from their shows and films, or the use of the characters they own in fanfic etc (same goes for authors). It's one of the chief reasons why fen don't do what they do for money. Only when money comes into it is there a problem, as we can see at the moment with the Harry Potter Lexicon situation, where the work-for-publication is very clearly just a compilation of quotes and contains very little original material.

It's fair enough that people don't want their pix used and if you find them, for you to ask people to stop, but if it's on the internet and not locked it's going to be used and you can't always know for sure.