Finding Your Photo on Random Websites
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Printed Date: July 03 2024 at 4:53pm
Topic: Finding Your Photo on Random Websites
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Subject: Finding Your Photo on Random Websites
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 6:25pm
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I was just googling fusion bonds, and sure enough, I find a photo of my
hair (when I had hairlocs, which were shortly thereafter a nightmare)
on some random stylist's website. This is like the third time this has
happened to me. Apparently, this stylist offers hairlocs and fusion,
but she certainly didn't do my hair, and I hated both of those methods
so I don't want my photo up there as advertising for her. Meanwhile, I
don't know if my previous stylist (and I use that term loosely) gave
the photos to her when I asked her to remove them from her site or if
this woman simply stole them. Either way, it's some bullsh*t. Any suggestions about how I should proceed on this? :) |
Replies:
Posted By: shel221
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 6:31pm
| Oh my! They can't use your photo's without permission, you should email them asking them to remove it asap. |
Posted By: Gina E
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 6:36pm
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That's BS............Big, Hairy BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'll be watermarking mine tonite! |
Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 6:41pm
| Total Bullcrap....I PM'ed you Jenny. Yeah girls mark your pictures or they may end up on some random website. Jenny, this is the third time you've found your pictures on other sites? |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 6:48pm
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Yup. Keep in mind that these aren't photos I took and posted online.
They were photos that stylists I no longer use took and posted. In this
case, I specifically requested that my picture be removed years ago
from my former stylist's site, which she did do, but then it pops up
here. Anyway, what follows is an email I just shot off. If it isn't removed, I will post this stylist's site here. (Oh, and I have the original picture, btw, if she even wants to claim it's her work.) :) To Whom This May Concern, While searching the Internet today, I stumbled upon your website. Much to my surprise, I found a photo of my hair all over your site--a picture that was taken years ago by a stylist I no longer use or reccommend. I had major problems with the hairlocs method and, as such, chose not to continue with it. I'm not sure whether this photo was given to you by that stylist or if you simply duplicated it from her site. Either way, though, it is not your work, and you do not have my permission to post it. I am requesting that you remove the photo immediately. It is the one with the long, straight, light-blonde hair. It currently appears on your Services page, your Photos page, and your "How are extensions applied?" page. Please remove the photo in those places and anywhere else it may appear. And please contact me when you have done so. All the best... Grrr....  |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 6:52pm
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Hit the "Print Scrn" button on your keyboard and open up a photo
program and hit paste. Save the jpg and mail it to yourself. Write or call the salon and give them two options: #1: Take the photo down. #2: Leave the photo up and you'll be contacting an attorney to seek royalties from this date forward for any extension money their salon brings in. One can ONLY come to the conclusion in a claims suit, Jenny, that the only reason people went to that stylist for work is because of YOUR photo they're using for advertising. Personally, I like option #2. |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 6:54pm
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You really concluded with "all the best?"
Now, see, I would have concluded with "the business end of my stiletto is currently up your @ss." But that's just me. |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 7:08pm
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no no amm a quote my dad used in a letter to a major airline
reagrding a problem he had with them after haaving been one of those
crazy ass frequent fliers "I suggest you perfrom an inprobable act in
an impossible manner" One of the most polite and eloquent ways
I've ever heard to sum up two words that are often accompanied by a
gesture that uses just one finger. |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 7:11pm
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LOL--don't do that when I'm drinking, girls. Diet coke sprayed all over the monitor.... :) |
Posted By: Syren123
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 7:58pm
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The witch. Is that you in the before picture with the kind of, um, kinky hair? The after is nice, but to be honest, your PH looks much better.
Poor Jenny. It's been a long, difficult hair road. |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 8:11pm
| Did I post the link here? I didn't think so. You might be thinking of another site that steals photos, Syren (there are so many it seems). My hair's actually pin-straight. I'll PM ya' with the URL. :) |
Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 10:23pm
hey Jenny check your messages!
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Posted By: zapevaj
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 10:34pm
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Eeeevil. That's why I watermark all my photos- I'd feel AWFUL if photos
of my clients turned up on someone else's website. They're nice enough
to let me use their image, so I feel obligated to keep it from being
stolen. But yeah, Jenny, what you've done is basically the best first step. If they don't respond within a few days, call them! A phone call is much more intimidating than an email. :) -Rae ------------- http://www.hairalchemy.net - Hair Alchemy |
Posted By: Kimbearly
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 12:45am
Did you get any replys Jenny? How weird to be looking on the internet and then find a picture of yourself. On the other hand they must of really liked what you looked like to post it. It's better to be a do than a don't  .------------- |
Posted By: Amanda8Beechwoo
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 2:51am
| You go girl Jenny xxx Give them some stick, that's disgusting xx |
Posted By: Save~A~Stray
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 2:54am
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I agree with the girls here and watermark all the pics
you post on the forum. You girls go out your way to post pics and share with others here. You don't know who is lurking around to steal your pics!! My web designer finished my front page and the minute I saw it. I called him and said..... where did this pic come from that you used? I told him he must not take any pics from any other hair site. He told me not to worry, he got it from a free pic site he uses for all this websites he designs. I will take all my own pics for my site when I get up and running. I will get some new before and afters. I will watermark every pic for this reason. Jenny, you know because you're a perfect model .....it is going to be easy for someone wanting to steal and use your pics for an ad. I think they will respond and take the picture down. |
Posted By: Kalika
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 4:57am
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hey - you forget to send me the url ;)
Im feeling left out lately cause I dont have any hair |
Posted By: clairey
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 5:47am
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Thats mad!! I always come across photos but thats because I work at a lot of car shows.... Although yesterday I found a site that was selling yes selling!! a picture of myself and my friend taken while we were working at a car show over the weekend!!Ive complained as its completely illegal so hes taking down all the pics!! grrrrrrr |
Posted By: Kalika
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 5:49am
...I wont mention what kinds of pics of me are floating around that shouldnt be 
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Posted By: Syren123
Date Posted: March 31 2005 at 8:38am
LOL!! Don't worry, Kalika - people are probably just looking at your mohawk! And then there's this one: 
I know it's not really you. It's Kalika from Babylon 5. ------------- |
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