Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/memoriesbymadison
This photographer has a decent following – I’m told she has gone viral a few times for her stranger sessions she does fairly often.
She’s done so many mini sessions she has her own images of many of these setups but keeps using stolen images.
Why is this a problem even if she says “not my photos” or “inspo” on the ads?
First off, the clients rarely read everything in front of them. Case in point are these comments complimenting Madison on her work in one of the ads with stolen images.
Second, Madison is getting the Google credit as the original source for these images!
One of the sets of images she stole for a “Notebook” themed mini session comes back to her as the original source, not the actual content creator!!!
When someone searches for that image OR anything that image is associated with (i.e. Notebook Inspired Mini Session Near Me) Madison will get that Google boost, not the OP even though the OP has more shares of their post, likely because Madison has more followers so Google is assuming that means she’s the original content creator.
This isn’t new, this has been an ongoing issue for years, I’m just highlighting it today because I’m getting annoyed (and it’s Monday).
P.S. What is it with these photographers that use stolen images for ads and having pay what you can sessions?
P.P.S. Allegedly Madison has been called out before and did a clean up of her page and there used to be more posted that wasn’t hers.
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