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JoelW
Hi!

I was surfing out on the internet last night and noticed that there were some pictures taken by me on the http://www.jesusrevolution.org site. "In the news section, Team west back from Finland", "Concerts->Our Aim and Press kit(picture on the top)" Some of the pictures are taken year ago, and some of them are taken during their visit in our local church in begining of february.

I don't really mind my pictures being used there, they do good work and I can support them, but I'm pretty annoyed by the fact that these pictures are taken from my website without my premission and displayed without any information about photographer. Maybe I should watermark my photos better.

My way with pictures I take on our church's events(concerts, etc) has been that I'm happy to give low resolution pictures to the performer for their private archives. And by asking premission they can put them on their websites gallery(if they have one) as long as the photographers name is mentioned with link to my site.

I sent email to the organization but haven't got any answers yet. I hope I get contact with them to get this sorted out. Otherwise I have to think some other ways.

-Joel-
Ricardo
QUOTE(JoelW @ February 26 2007, 06:56 AM) [snapback]86115[/snapback]
Hi!

I was surfing out on the internet last night and noticed that there were some pictures taken by me on the http://www.jesusrevolution.org site. "In the news section, Team west back from Finland", "Concerts->Our Aim and Press kit(picture on the top)" Some of the pictures are taken year ago, and some of them are taken during their visit in our local church in begining of february.

I don't really mind my pictures being used there, they do good work and I can support them, but I'm pretty annoyed by the fact that these pictures are taken from my website without my premission and displayed without any information about photographer. Maybe I should watermark my photos better.

My way with pictures I take on our church's events(concerts, etc) has been that I'm happy to give low resolution pictures to the performer for their private archives. And by asking premission they can put them on their websites gallery(if they have one) as long as the photographers name is mentioned with link to my site.

I sent email to the organization but haven't got any answers yet. I hope I get contact with them to get this sorted out. Otherwise I have to think some other ways.

-Joel-


I was about to suggest you contact them but I read you already did that at the end of your post. If and when you speak with them let them know nicely that you are flattered but that it was wrong to do without permission. Hopefully, they did not mean any harm and did not know what they were doing was wrong.
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