JeremyShane

http://jeremyshanephotography.blogspot.com/2010/09/dealing-with-more-copyright-violations.html Another incident of dealing with stolen photography. It's sad that it all started (at least it appears) because of another deviant art poster stealing my image "becoming mother" http://fav.me/d1y23yc and photoshopping it.  She added actress Kristin Stewart's face over the models, added a tree to the background and called it her own.  Obviously having something to do with Twilight, this was picked up elsewhere on the web. All in all so far I have gone through four sites getting images pulled because of this thief.  Maybe they think it is innocent

http://jeremyshanephotography.blogspot.com/ My (and another fellow photographer's) Fight over stolen photography with a website overseas: A website that sells belly dance costuming and is based out of Pakistan had saved a couple of our images from online and cropped the watermarks out and used them to decorate their website banners and borders.  We had attempted going through the PPA, who proved to be fairly useless after sending a threatening letter didn't work  (Nice to know I'm wasting a few hundred dollars a year on their membership-won't make that mistake again)  After the guy in Pakistan said he paid someone for the pics that he canno

I have never really used the journal here like a full out blog, but if anyone is interested in checking out my actual blog you can do so at two places: If you use MySpace, you can go here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=73142369 If you don't, I have a mirror of it at eBlogger: http://jeremyshane.blogspot.com/ I try to post a few times a week and try to be mildly interesting.  I also post a picture with each new post (sometimes more).  Thank you in advance to those that check it out.