DM Productions aka Robbie Caine Photography in Melbourne, Australia

Website:  http://dmproductions.fotomerchant.com/home

This genius not only stole images and stole from me but went to my actual website to do it.  When there he had to screen capture to steal the images because I’ve yet to find an HTML site I like as much as my flash website. 

Lots of swear words people.  LOTS OF SWEAR WORDS!  Thank GOD I bought some alcohol today.  Oddly this photographer stole from a lot of Ohio photographers because you know, Australia is TOTALLY similar to Ohio.  WTF?

I am publishing this then going back into the other galleries.  Given that most of them (Fashion, Glamour and Portrait) seem to be from commercial artists the sourcing may be a bit more difficult.

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Jeremy Cowart in Los Angeles, CA

Website:  http://jeremycowart.com/

 

A month or so ago at Photoshop World in Atlanta, Jeremy Cowart was a presenter.  In this class he described his technique of creating time-lapse videos of himself creating composite art pieces which he is selling for his charity.  Part of that process involved Jeremy showing himself going to Google Image Search and using images taken by others as layers in the final composite piece.  When questioned during his class about the legalities regarding copyright infringement by doing this, Jeremy allegedly said that it didn’t apply because he isn’t making money off of the pieces.   This information is wrong.  If you want to read the laws about derivative works, read here.  Essentially if you are using images that are copyright to the original owner to create a new piece of work you must have permission from the original copyright holder.   While I admire what Jeremy does for his charities, I don’t admire his method of creating the work and then teaching other creatives at a conference this method of obtaining images for composite work.

 

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Collecting Light AKA Journey Through Meadows in Brighton, England, UK

Website:  http://collectinglight.com/ [URL no longer valid]
Flickr:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/72610808@N04/

More proof that a pretty website doesn’t mean the photographer is legit.  This photographer was called out by the original photographers back in December but they have had no luck getting their images removed from Collecting Light’s website or Flickr.

Each gallery appears to be lifted from the same photographer so I’m not sourcing every single image, just a few from each gallery.

Each blog is also lifted from a single photographer and is accompanied by a fake story about the session.  You know how much those creep me out!

Update: 05/10/2014 @5:00PM EST

Added in some plagiarism that’s going on along with more stolen images from her Journey Through Meadows blog.  There are fake stories and stolen images abound on the blog and it is quite unsettling.  More digging has shown that not only has Lucie been plagiarizing but she’s also faked her own death.

Flickr has removed all of the stolen images and her photography website has been changed to force a login to see the site.

Lucie commented in the comments if you care to read her side of the story (spoiler – those are her images she took herself!).

Thank you for your ad clicks and donations – this enabled me to pay for more searches with Copyscape to help find the original writers of many of these blogs.  <3

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Moore Photo in Indianapolis, IN

Website: http://moorephoto.co/
Boudoir Gallery: http://moorephotoindy.com/fineart/boudoir-gallery/
Boudoir Website: http://boudoir.moorephotoindy.com/boudoir-gallery/ 
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moore-photography-Indy/338580312920786
Google +: https://plus.google.com/+MoorePhotographyIndianapolis/posts

This photographer popped up when searching Time to Sparkle’s original sources. 

NSFW Warning to those browsing at work

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Time to Sparkle Photo Design AKA TTS Photo Design AKA Once Upon a Picture in Vineland, NJ

Website: http://www.timetosparklephotography.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/TTS-Photo-Design-LLC/215052625232087
Facebook Business Profile:  https://www.facebook.com/timeto.sparklephotography
Etsy:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/TTSPhotoDesign
Website:  http://www.onceuponapicturenj.com/
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/onceuponapicturenj?fref=ts

I literally have a headache from working on this submission.  When you are caught using images that aren’t yours on your website, the answer is not to call it “inspiration” for a class and act like it’s not a big deal.  You remove the images and apologize.  Obviously since you are reading this, that’s not what happened and the images are still up (AND FOR SALE!) on her website but she has changed the wording to reflect these are “inspiration” just don’t mind that pesky © TTS Photo Design beneath the image.  You can read the saga go down on TTS’s Facebook here.   Don’t worry, I have a PDF just in case.

NSFW warning for anyone browsing at work due to the boudoir images. 

Update 06/12/2014

Updated with new business name and addresses.

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