Stealing Photos

Angie La started this discussion · 6/23/2012

I just wanted to open a discussion about stealing photos from other dancers. This is absolutely unacceptable and really creepy! There is a user who stole a photo and used it as their own on facebook. I can not even begin to explain the feeling I felt when I first saw this... Here is a link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=166736560125693&set=a.165842806881735.37014.100003680491679&type=1&theater

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Leanne Love · 6/23/2012
The link didn't work for me but imagine if you saw someone else with your own photo! How creepy would that be!?
Angie La · 6/23/2012
I wonder why the link would not work... It was a screen shot of my picture with the person's name who stole it. The user is called Joely Monttero. I could upload it to studioneena...?
Angie La · 6/23/2012
https://www.studioveena.com/photos/view_photo/4fe666de-c494-4014-9a11-4acd0ac37250
Leanne Love · 6/23/2012
Wait was it your picture that was stolen?? I kind of feel your pain, since one time I met a guy at a bus stop who found me on Facebook and shared my profile picture on his profile. So damn creepy!
Angie La · 6/23/2012
Yes it is me in the picture. Instead of "sharing" the photo, this user downloaded it and reuploaded it as their own. They claim they live in Budapst put the comments are all in Spanish. But that is no matter--I live in Germany and speak English. The sickening part is how one of the comments asks if it is their house (meaning in the picture). 💪
Jojodanza · 6/23/2012
How did you find out? Have you reported her yet?And I had the same happen to me on smootther social network..and the chick tried to holla at my brother! How freaking creepy.
darling dearest · 6/23/2012
How terrible! I hope you've reported whoever stole your photo. You should update your privacy settings so people you don't know don't go around looking at your photos or sharing them.
Angie La · 6/23/2012
Thank you. I will check again... Facebook is run by such jerks and keep changing the settings and the privacy issues change as well. I did report this user and contacted them personally just before i blocked them. I also commented on the picture which I am not sure you can read in the screenshot.
Angie La · 6/23/2012
I updated my privacy settings but I see no option to keep people from sharing my photos...
mspretty1414 · 6/23/2012
Creepy. I'm glad I don't have Facebook.
Angie La · 6/23/2012
@Jojodanza, I saw it in my news feed. The person is a mutual friend of someone who is actually my friend. I was posted that the user uploaded new pictures and that is where I found ME. And someone asking, in spanish, if the photo was taken at their house. I wanna barf thinking about it... I also let my friend know about it in case she wasn't aware that this user is a freaking wack job. It is 3:30 in the morning here so I don't think she will get the message for a few hours.
Leanne Love · 6/23/2012
Photo privacy settings can be changed at the individual album, not privacy settings. They changed that too...
Angie La · 6/23/2012
I deleted mine for a while and my famiily was upset since we live in Germany now. Then I had pole friends who were not a part of Studioveena and said it was easier to keep up with facebook. So, I started a pole facebook especially so that I would not be tagged in any pole photos for my mom and grandma to see. I will be tightening down the action on my facebook but they keep making it increasingly hard with all of their new and improvd changes. It is a great way to keep in touch and to network, but there are creepy idiots who have no backbone and want to steal someone elses identity. So I think when this happens it is my duty as a human to pass along the info... no?
Angie La · 6/23/2012
Annieloo, I still don't see that option... Its late here and I have to go to bed--I'll check again tomorrow. And, thanks for the responses!!!
tiggertail · 6/23/2012
I'm sorry but anyone can steal and use your pic for what they want...trust me i know first hand. I have ask that guy and his ''charity'' to stop using my pic because i don't want anything to do with him. We even complain to FB and they don't care. He left it there with my many messages to take it down. Only thing you can do is know that anything you will put on FB (or YT) can easily be stolen 🙁 People have no respect.
CreativityBySteffie · 6/24/2012
I meet this problem alot in my job. "photographers" stealing my pictures and claiming they took them, editors claiming they edited it. I've even tried other girls using them and claiming they are the ones on the picture (the last one I dont get at all!) The best thing you can do, is watermark them. I usually do this, except here on SV. Otherwise you can just spread the word, like you are doing and take it as a creepy compliment. :/ One of the photographers I know, een has a lawyer for this purpose only, but it also happens to him alot. Some people are just creeps :/
Angie La · 6/24/2012
Yes I need to figure out how to watermark them. That is what my husband said but in would not want it directly in the middle of the photo... Or maybe it's not so bad. Any tips on making a watermark? I am sure I could google it. Thanks again for the feedback!! I couldn't think of any other way to get the word out better than to post here and put it in my fb status. Like you said, it is a creepy compliment :-S. and I really would like to think it would not happen on SV but what if it did..? That almost scares me.
CreativityBySteffie · 6/24/2012
I dont know what it is, but I feel kind of safe on SV. Its the only place online where trolls and negativity are rare, but if it would happen, I would learn from that.:) Youcan make a very subtle watermark with an opacity around 5-10 % people would not see that right away, but the ou can point it out, that your name is on that picture. I change how I do it,from time to time. Sometimes I do the mark like I wrote before, or I put it on the side of the picture (a place where it does not go over me) and make it a little more obvious. You can pretty easily make one in photoshop. Its a bit complicated to explain in a message, but if you search "how to make a watermark in ps" on youtube, theres lots of simple step by step tutorials for it :)
CreativityBySteffie · 6/24/2012
Oh and if they distribute my pictures with the watermark on, I concider it free advertising :)
tiggertail · 6/24/2012
Yep this is the safest way to keep your pics from being stole..I do it for all my Tigg's picture that goes outside SV. Here people are more respectful and most of all i think there's system in place that prevent from ''saving'' a pic at least there's is one for the video...that really help to feel more safe.
shimz · 6/24/2012
mine was stolen by a japanese magazine around 2 years ago.they published it without anything,call or email or link.i think they grabbed it from my website.i asked some people here.and was told that it would be a waste of time dealing with it since lawyers fee is enormous.so my idea was a watermark.but note that we cannot control much in this internet world anymore,unless we are so equipped to tracking things.but if its a facebook profile.i am sure u can do report.
luvlee · 6/24/2012
All my pics are private for friends only so this won't happen. So creepy!!!
Angie La · 6/25/2012
Wow shmiz! That is creepy!!! Creepy seems so over used now that I need to come up wth another way to describe this crazy idea that people would have of stealing a photo for themselves. @luvlee, the person on facebook added me bc we had a mutual friend. Here in Germany, it is hard for me to remember their real names, let alone if it is just a Facebook name they use. I should have just asked them directly how they knew me and that I only add people that I know, or spent time with at a workshop, or whatever. This person downloaded my photo, re-uploaded it as one of their own pictures as if it was them in my picture instead of me. Here you can not see my face. I think that upset me the most. It's like they use other people's photos to make them think they can do all this stuff when really it isn't even her. Ive also recently been snubbed by some pole people and that hurt pretty bad... This is just the icing on the cake. The few veneers I have met in person have been so loving and wonderful, but I've learned the hard way that other people are not like that.
Angie La · 6/25/2012
Wow shmiz! That is creepy!!! Creepy seems so over used now that I need to come up wth another way to describe this crazy idea that people would have of stealing a photo for themselves. @luvlee, the person on facebook added me bc we had a mutual friend. Here in Germany, it is hard for me to remember their real names, let alone if it is just a Facebook name they use. I should have just asked them directly how they knew me and that I only add people that I know, or spent time with at a workshop, or whatever. This person downloaded my photo, re-uploaded it as one of their own pictures as if it was them in my picture instead of me. Here you can not see my face. I think that upset me the most. It's like they use other people's photos to make them think they can do all this stuff when really it isn't even her. Ive also recently been snubbed by some pole people and that hurt pretty bad... This is just the icing on the cake. The few veneers I have met in person have been so loving and wonderful, but I've learned the hard way that other people are not like that.
Angie La · 6/25/2012
Wow shmiz! That is creepy!!! Creepy seems so over used now that I need to come up wth another way to describe this crazy idea that people would have of stealing a photo for themselves. @luvlee, the person on facebook added me bc we had a mutual friend. Here in Germany, it is hard for me to remember their real names, let alone if it is just a Facebook name they use. I should have just asked them directly how they knew me and that I only add people that I know, or spent time with at a workshop, or whatever. This person downloaded my photo, re-uploaded it as one of their own pictures as if it was them in my picture instead of me. Here you can not see my face. I think that upset me the most. It's like they use other people's photos to make them think they can do all this stuff when really it isn't even her. Ive also recently been snubbed by some pole people and that hurt pretty bad... This is just the icing on the cake. The few veneers I have met in person have been so loving and wonderful, but I've learned the hard way that other people are not like that.

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