If you’re an educator (or call yourself that) in this industry you know better than to post anything on your page that you didn’t photograph yourself. It appears Jen has an extensive backlog of work so why is she using photos that she didn’t take for her model calls and workshop ad?
Yes, the workshop ad had “inspo” and in tiny letters “not my photos” but it doesn’t matter. If you’re hosting a workshop and charging photographers those damn well better be YOUR images that you’re posting. I also double checked to make sure that permission wasn’t granted before publishing this post.
There are quite a few more images I couldn’t find sources for.
Yay another photographer who uses others copyrighted works to advertise their mini sessions.
Originally I just messaged the photographers that I found to let them know their images were stolen and wasn’t intending on making a post. Instead of changing the images out for images Darling Memories actually photographed themselves they switched the photos out for different stolen images.
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Anyways… I guess I’m back from faux-retirement! I’ve dusted off the blog, Facebook Page and my Patreon if anyone wants to support the fight against copyright infringement.
I was minding my own damn business when a post hit my Facebook feed from a photographer advertising mini sessions in a wedding group. I pinged right away they were stolen images so I searched to verify, then went to her Facebook Page and saw a shitbrick of stolen images advertising various sessions.
I replied and said, “These aren’t your images and it’s copyright infringement to use someone else’s work to advertise your own. This goes for ALL of the photos on your Facebook Page advertising sessions with images that aren’t yours.” and went along with my Sunday, not intending to make a post.
Then Kaley replies back saying, “If you read the entire post it’s stated it is an example of the set up. Thank you for your concern “
Ma’am. You did NOT just try to gaslight me. No, no siree.
Her original post, as shown below, states NOWHERE that these aren’t examples. She slyly edited to say that after I called her out then tried to gaslight me by saying her post stated that. EVEN IF IT DID, since we’re all here we know better than thinking that makes copyright infringement okay but she didn’t say that originally.
I replied again and also called her out on her gaslighting. She deleted the post and then blocked me. Curiously, she did NOT delete her ad.
So, here we go.
To make it CRYSTAL clear: even *if* you say “inspiration photos” unless you have permission from the photographer/original content creator you cannot just use the images. Even if you have THEIR permission your clients have a case against you for deceptive advertising if your images do not compare in quality to what you posted.
DO NOT USE IMAGES THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN FOR MINI SESSION ADS.
Not how I planned on spending one of my few Saturdays off this year but here we are. It’s almost somewhat refreshing to get back to photo stealing after dealing with getting scammed a month ago though!
I suspect this photographer has joined some photographer action Facebook and/or Boudoir groups because some of the photos I can’t find online but she has others from the session so she got them somewhere. If you run one of these groups you may want to make sure she isn’t a member.
Since she stole multiple items from a single session I’m posting the first after a bit because it’s a lot of work lol.
As always, there is a huge difference between Alyson’s work and what she’s stolen.
This wall of shame is dedicated to photographers that feel that it's okay to steal others' work and post it as their own. Oh I'm sorry, it's okay to let their "web designer" do it.
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