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Who's authorizing this site to STEEL peoples photos and use them as their own? I'm seeing dozens of my photos here and no credit is even...

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lovie2000 lovie2000
 
 July 18, 2009 08:06 PM
No one is STEALING pictures and posting them on this site.

But if you have pictures on this site and can verify that they are pictures you solely own and you are the rightful owner

Just contact the administrators of the site and point them in the direction of your pictures, verify they are yours, and ask that the link and or pictures generating be removed.

As I said before they don't STEAL and post pictures, only links and that generates the view of the image. So in all reality credit is given for any picture that may be yours on this site, because pictures that are visible here are linked and some are powered by flickr.


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psynopsis psynopsis
 
July 18, 2009 10:15 PM
Mahalo does not steal pictures, if they come from Flickr they no longer have an owner.

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lovie2000 lovie2000
 
July 18, 2009 11:31 PM
That's what i said didn't I, twice as a matter of fact.

If they don't want their pictures on any sites they shouldn't use sites like flickr, becaue that is considered public domain and open for fair use, under copyright law, unless you have them on your own personal website and clearly showing that they are personal property, there isn't much that can be done here, but to see if their flickr account has a feature to put their photos on private mode.

To come on a site and blatantl accuse them of stealing photos is rediculous.

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krusheasy krusheasy
 
July 18, 2009 08:10 AM
are you metaphor91 on Flickr ?

I am assuming your talking about Mahalo. This is an interesting question ... I guess the owner of the company would be responsible for their authorization. I posted his profile page below which has his contact information available. Might be get a faster response by speaking with someone on staff like jeff or lon tho.

http://www.mahalo.com/member/jasoncalacanis

http://www.mahalo.com/member/jeffhoard

http://www.mahalo.com/member/lon
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http://www.mahalo.com/member/jasoncalacanis


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rawbert rawbert
 
July 18, 2009 08:13 AM
Yes, Mahalo has several of my photos, some are on side bars with text stories... I've sent contact question to several people on the Contact Us page... Hope your links work for me. Thanks

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krusheasy krusheasy
 
July 18, 2009 08:18 AM
Just reposting this from our direct question:

I don't know the answer, but suggested some names of people on staff who you should speak with.
I am a new member myself. What I do know is when we set up a topic page there are applications that find videos, photos, tweets, blogs etc. that have to do with the topics. The applications are referring to your flickr page ... so you may have to speak with flickr about this. Maybe change your setting to private or something along those lines so your content is not shared with the rest of the web.

Hope this helps.

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soundboy soundboy
 
July 18, 2009 03:18 PM
The Mahalo pages automatically search for related pictures around the web. If yours happens to be related, it may show up there.

In answers, some people will search for pictures and add them to support an answer. When this happens, the url is posted so is shows where the picture is coming from.

Like Krusheasy said, if there are any pics you want to be removed from the site, you can contact the staff members and they should take care of it.

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rawbert rawbert
 
July 18, 2009 04:52 PM
Thanks, I've contacted the staff, no response... I just wanted to know why and who.

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soundboy soundboy
 
July 18, 2009 04:59 PM
Try @jeffhoard , @lon , or @danielle .

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psynopsis psynopsis
 
July 18, 2009 10:15 PM
If you mean the photos shown on pages about a certain topic, they are automatically pulled from many sites. Mostly Flickr, now I want to clear up something, once you upload photos to sites like Flickr you are relinquishing ownership to them. And you do get credit, if someone clicks on a photo they are directed to the Flickr profile that originally uploaded the photo. If they click on one of your photos' then they are sent to your profile thus giving you credit.

Show me a picture that you believe is being stolen from you.

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