Pictures stolen from your website?

MrKlean

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How would YOU feel if you found someone else using YOUR "before and after" pictures on THEIR pressure washing site? Basically, they are promoting and profiting from MY hard work and (somewhat amazing) results! They are about to receive a "Cease and Desist" letter, but in the mean time, I had to take all my pictures off my website and plaster my name all over them to "watermark" them so that no one else can use them.

TIP FOR YOU GUYS: If you like to show off your work, watch out - there are some lazy mo-fo low life's out there looking for an easy way to rip more of "our" customers off. So learn to use MS Paint to paste your company name on your pictures so others can't profit from your hard work.

Jim
 
Stolen Pics

I'd be happy to! You may have to cut and paste, but here is the webpage.

http://www.azpressurewash.com/residential_roofcleaning.html

If you look at the bottom, you will see two pictures of an orange tile roof that I did up in Hudson, Florida and then the two pictures below that of the white tile roofs, these are from a home I did in Safety Harbor, Florida.

There's probably no telling how many other sites are out there doing this. It's probably not a bad idea to have your company name on your pictures anyway. Thanks for letting me vent Russ.
 
In all fairness, many business owners hire web design companies to produce a website and the company owner probably has no idea that portions are ripped from other web sites. The culprit here may be Empire Advertising & Design, LLC and not AZ pressure wash. But then again ..oh just sue everyone thats what the insurance companies do.
 
He's using Parker West's text - don't know if it's them but not even change the wording is bad if it's not yours!

Also, did you see the affiliation page?

Celest
 
He's using Parker West's text - don't know if it's them but not even change the wording is bad if it's not yours!

Also, did you see the affiliation page?

Celest

Celeste,

Thanks for the email. I checked the members database for his company. According to our records we show no past membership of his company with the UAMCC. He is certainly not a new member as we have not processed ANY
applications under the new transition team.

He will be notified to remove the old UAMCC logo from his affiliation page and any printed marketing material that suggest any affiliation with the UAMCC.

Thanks for the heads up!
 
If this guy is stealing other people's pictures, he shouldn't watermark his own.

Also, watermarks give such a false sense of security. Unless the watermark is so intrusive as to make the picture nearly useless then the watermark itself won't stop someone from using it.

I took one of his watermarked pictures (who knows where he originally got it . . . maybe it really is his, maybe it isn't) and here's what I did.

Oh, here's the original so you can see what it looks like.
cpw_03.jpg
 

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