Copyrighted Fish Images..

[dominicolas]

Yes, it is irrelevant, as it is following a major thread derailment. However, I didn't EVER say anyone was getting reimbursed. I said you can deduct your expenses from your profits and you will only pay tax on the difference, because that is your actual income, not whatever total amount someone paid you for your product. If it were any other way, businesses could not afford to operate. CASH RECEIVED - PRODUCTION EXPENSES = INCOME. I'm done with taxes here for now and don't want to think about them again 'til next April.

Back on track -- Hope that guy takes the pictures down soon since the OP said he can't use them anymore.

Agreed

 

[dmed]

I've found people using my pictures before and although I think it's wrong to do, I've never asked anyone to remove them. It's usually something like an avatar on a message board or something on Myspace. There's a breeder that I buy great fish from who is not a very good photographer, and I send him pictures of fish he has sold me with permission to use them on his website if he wants.

It's not really the pictures as much as the notion that it's ok that bothers me. IMHO rampant plagarism is really hurting the fishkeeping hobby. It's the reason that real professional fish photographers like Neil Armstrong, Gunther Schmida, and others don't often submit pictures for use on the internet. Attempts at informational fish sites like Fishbase have been frustrated at the lack of quality professional photos that photographers will allow for online use. Sites like Wikipedia usually have pictures taken from another site with permission, but they are not the correct species. There are really precious few places on the internet where you should actually trust a picture 100% for species identification.

Once I bought some fish from a breeder on Aquabid who asked me to e-mail some information after I received the fish about the water temperature and packaging when they arrived. Many weeks later, someone asked me if I had bought some fish from this person and told me that my entire personal e-mail was his new advertisement. I didn't contact him, but it bothered me. In a few months, I wanted some more fish that only he had, and I placed another order. I didn't mention the e-mail, but he told me right away that he had used it and had sold a lot of fish because of it, so he gave me a discount on my order.