Breach of Copyright

When you've got as much stuff on the Web as I have it's inevitable that some of it will be lifted. Some people are polite enough to ask, most don't bother. We've had two instances of it this week.

First there's a local politician's new web site, which currently features a photo Beth took some years ago now and which currently graces the front page of the Friends of Milton Country Park web site.

They're even implicitly claiming copyright of the image. To be fair his webmaster did ask the Friends if he could use the image but I asked Beth and she said "no" and that was the message I passed back to the Friends for them to pass on. I've emailed the politician and no doubt it will disappear in a few days.

Meanwhile there's a slew of new photos from Panoramio now visible from Google Earth including this one of the flooding down Fen Road in 2001.

In its page on Panoramio it's currently marked as "by anonymous" but the problem is that it's my photo. It's been lifted from this page on my web site. Anyway, I've emailed them asking them to credit it to me rather than remove as I've got a Panoramio account and it might as well stay there as it's a good photo of the floods and I've added a link to my other flood photos.