Posts Tagged “theft”

Well, The Daily Mail is getting round my IP address ban and have nicked my Hazel Blears image.
Blears falls prey to ‘Google Bomb’ Attack Of The 50-inch Woman - Here
A screen capture of the current front page of The Daily Mail’s website :

This is despite my new notice (on the left) about image use (it even mentions The Daily Mail) and despite Associated Newspapers acknowledging having been warned about image use before.
(Associated agreed to circulate my details around relevant departments so none of their titles would use my pictures.)
From my site’s logs it seems that Associated Newspapers made many attempts to access the relevant post on my site (and image server) which were all denied but the author could have been working from home or phoned a friend.
Towards the end of the article, the truth comes out about the Google bombing accusation :
“Google yesterday denied the politicians had been subjected to Google Bombing, saying the picture’s ranking was due to several factors including popularity.”
Associated Newspapers stole my Kate Moss/Pete Doherty image earlier this year (here) when the article was actually about Russell Young’s prints of my image.
I’ve deleted all copies/posts of that one from my servers for other reasons, including the fact that I was getting way too many visits because of the popularity of the picture in Google images.
Update :
It seems The Daily Telegraph has run a very similar story here and, of course, stolen the image.
Both images have been cropped to delete my tag on the original image.