Wildlife Photography across the Water: Photogrind steals Wildlifeacrossthe water material

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Photogrind steals Wildlifeacrossthe water material

Photogrind steals http://wildlifeacrossthewater.blogsspot.com material

Including one of my images here

Originally posted here back last October

So all you Photogrind readers you can see where all your good material feed is coming from now

http://wildlifeacrossthewater.blogspot.com/

Martin

Update: Clearly this pirate has no clue or shame and does not read the content and has repeated this post verbatim on his website - at least his reader will see where the material is now sourced.

Dave and I will be looking at our options over this thief in the next day or so

4 comments:

Julian10 March 2010 at 20:38
Martin/Dave

Have no knowledge of this site. Clicked your first link and flicked back a few pages and it's reproduced (at least) on 28/2/10 Martin's female sparrowhawk imagess and text, and Dave's Waxwing and oppossum images and text on 27/2.

Is this manually retrieved or autobot (aka Google esque) retrieved? Haven't spent long but can't see the point of this site except for the copious click through ads that are festooned all over the pages.

Current page 1 has picked up Black Sabbath and Lady Gaga/Beyonce!! - quite a specific choice of interests for core readers (?).

Don't know enough to help you more, but on a positive level I would make sure that in the short term while you monitor, consider:

> active links in every post (which you mostly do) and
> perhaps prefix (WPAW reports blah blah)or suffix (ditto)or mention Wildlife Photography Across the Water at least once in the text.

I'm sure you've already thought of this and more.

You never know, the true photgraphy punters may get bored rigid with the amount of other c**p that it reports, that you may pick up a number of new Blog followers as result of your in-built Marketing activities!

Can't comment on the repro of images aspect (probably unlawful as this is replicated without copyright permission as opposed to linking to original source)(I'm not a qualified lawyer), but IMHO all I'd say is that this is a lazy, arrogant, disrespectful and parasitic approach to providing/attracting readership following.

Won't be bookmarked in my Favourites!

PS If it helps the Beyonce/Gaga comments were 90% Spanish (or Italian), 5% English and 5% German. Is it Spanish originated?

Not really sure what "harm" this site could do to you guys, but unlike yours and other photo sites/forums I visit this effort by P********d is truly RANDOM & UNINSPIRATIONAL!

Hope these rushed comments provide you both with some food for thought/action.

KR
Julian
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WPATW10 March 2010 at 21:33
Thanks for your kind comments Julian.

It is clearly a bot thing as it has posted this post and also another similar such from another blogger, so if he actually has any readers then at least they will be aware he is a thief

We will follow up certain channels and also as long as we keep a clear message on our posts where the material comes from then as you say it might drive more traffic here

Martin
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WPATW10 March 2010 at 22:25
Have raised issue with Google Adsense who this thief is using, along with a direct approach to the Webhoster.

Will keep you up to speed with developments

Martin
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Anonymous11 March 2010 at 12:05
I have had problems with theft of copyright in the past and found that getting a resolution isn't as easy as you think it should be without throwing time and money at it. Hope you can get it sorted to your satisfaction.
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David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.