Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright

New submitter JamieKitson writes "Photographer Jay Lee got more than he bargained for after sending some DMCA takedown notifications out to hosts of sites using one of his pictures. One Candice Shwagger accused him of everything from conspiracy over local sheriff elections to child abuse. Since Candice is now threatening legal action, Jay has said he'll take down the post, so here's a snap shot. After reading the story, I checked for use of my own pictures and found one of them being used on a review site without even a credit."

Comments

Re:How

[Ken_g6]

Well, TinEye can find pictures on the internet that match ones you upload.

Re:How

[John Bokma]

Enter the URL of your picture in Google's image search and it will also find similar/same.

Re:How

[ubergeek65536]

You can drag and drop an image from your desktop onto the Google image search. I was amazed at how fast and accurate it is. It looks like it doesn't even need to be an exact match.

I searched for a photo of a piece of graffiti from a wall outside of San Francisco and Google found a few other people that had taken a photo of the same wall.

Her logo looks identical to another site too!

[Anonymous Coward]

Her Blogspot site ...

http://attorney4specialneeds.blogspot.com/

Has the same logo as ...

http://activesportfitness.co.uk/

Someone seems to have copied it from the other.

Thanks to Google Goggles for that quick research!

Re:How

[cpu6502]

Here's the woman's website, with all the nasty hateful material she posted about the photographer (who retracted the DMCA).

Let's slashdot her:
http://chicksandpolitics.com/

Re:Photographer should say "Go ahead"

[cpu6502]

And once again, I have to change my previous comment. Here's what this woman emailed privately and posted publicly about the photographer:

Private - "Now that the issue is resolved and you have your precious image back, do not ever bother me again. You cost me thousands in billable time and I could sue you. You are fortunate it came back up because as usual, an emergency call came in from a very disabled client needing help and it is substantial as to time/effort/predicted fees. Had you not done the right thing, you would have hurt a lot of people, but most pathethically, a MR girl with the mind of a 4 year old who needs my help. Do not harass or stalk me on Twitter or FB or otherwise. I am done and you better be. Donâ(TM)t make me vomit, your lawyer."

PUBLIC: "Jay Lee Blows It
I do not believe this many coincidences could come together and be legit. So many things dont add up or sound the alarms, I just canâ(TM)t bring myself to buy the innocent victim role Jay Lee vomits everywhere. Jay Leeâ(TM)s skittish inconsistency, sincere, desperate, apologetic (clearly understanding nothing was knowingly done to him, after he saw all of the wreckage his wrecklessness caused), terror (induced by reading my letter? Realizing he had made a big mistake), inexplicable stalking, bait & switch images on Flickr, removing âoehot potatoâ image and refusing to sell at opportune time, with my letter thrashing him, sent the fear of God through him.

"I do not believe in coincidence. Even if I did, the number of âoecoincidencesâ that occurred in this shameless, disgusting story, make me quite certain that Adrian Garcia and/or Alan Bernstein and his minions at the Chronicle conspired to have the Help Desk guy / techie, Jay Lee (creepy), falsely accuse me of copyright infringement and use his tech abilities to determine which website was hosting the remaining sites so that Garcia could take them all down."

B.I.T.C.H.