I'm trying to figure out where this is. It's not Wichita though. US-54 runs through Wichita but I'm not familiar with US-19.
The mountains in the distance reveal this location, and it's nature of being a theft, pretty obvious. Those are the Wichita mountains, and this video was taken on Friday. You can clearly see the signs for non-U.S. highways 19 and 54, which intersect just north and south of Cooperton, northwest of the Wildlife Refuge. The shots at the end closely resemble those from Dan Robinson's chase account in that thread, but it's not his video.
If you post good footage on Youtbube or Facebook and it gets any traction, there's a Youtube person named Sheilaaliens who will rip your video off and post it on her channel. She gets hundreds of thousands of views and makes good money via adsense by ripping people's stuff off. She's some conspiracy nut and she'll fight you tooth and nail with your videos over fair use. You've been warned! It's why I hardly ever post anything online.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SelectedVideos4U/videos This user is ripping dozens of chasers' tornado videos, many from this last event.
My video of the 5/5/10 Medford tornado was taken down for that reason. No water marks, but I'm talking in it so there should be no mistaking it. I watched for it to be posted by someone else, but I never saw it. Youtube put it back up after a while. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2
Here's a YouTube video that looks like someone took from the original chaser (the text says Randy Denzer), cropped out the watermark / copyright info, and reposted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17lActtn1c&feature=related . Who goes through that much work to do that? I don't get it.
Folks, just a reminder to follow the very specific rules of this thread. This thread is for the identification of copyrighted work only, not for discussion about copyrights, how to deal with them, etc. Numerous posts have been deleted the last few days. Thanks for your cooperation.
I have just come across a page on Facebook where a guy is illegally taking and modifying storm photos and then posting them with his logo stamp- some of which look very familiar. I want to give everyone a heads up, as I have already found works that this person has stolen from Montana photographer Sean Heavey. Please look through the images on the following link to ensure your rights have not been violated as well: LINK
Check this Facebook page for your work. The page is going viral using others' images. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Destructive-Nature/365398036899485
Please fill out this form or forward it to the copyright holder. Facebook claims it will remove offending content and repeat offending users. It has to be your own work to use the form, however: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/208282075858952
These pages are *still* stealing hundreds of chaser images. I report when mine are stolen, but it puzzles me why these pages are still up. It's irritating to have to keep up with these. If more of us report, the more likely these will be taken down. These have been up for months. Does it make anyone else mad that these pages build more followers using your images in a month than yours has in years? They do it on the backs of our work. It's not free advertising. "Free advertising" is the line that we're always fed about other businesses using our images for free, this isn't any different! You get NOTHING from your images being used on one of these pages. The only one who benefits is the page owner. Most of the time these pages don't give credit anyway. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dest...036899485?id=365398036899485&sk=photos_stream https://www.facebook.com/SuperCelula
Not sure what to do about this. I found a guy selling storm chasing bumper stickers on eBay using some of Tim Samaras pictures as well as others in his description pictures. Does anyone think I should contact this seller and ask him to remove them?
I'm pretty sure contacting eBay about it works. They'll remove the item or even shut down the account.
I was unable to figure out how to report the item. I did send the user a message asking that he remove the photos in 24 hours or I would be contacting ebay support.
Copyright infringement is running rampant on the Internet no doubt. We live in an age where people feel "entitled" to grab anything they want and expect it to be free and without punishment if illegally obtained. Some abusers, including businesses, have some wacky idea they can use any image due to something they call "fair use." There is no such thing. (I've even seen this lame excuse in court cases!). As previously discussed, the decision to actually go after someone is extremely expensive since copyright infringements are handled via Federal Court. If a contract is involved, you have some options in State Courts. The rewards can be substantial, so most major corporations will comply. (Remember to register your copyrights for full protection). As for Internet infringement, the ISP is legally required to remove "confirmed" infringements: Here is an excellent reference about ISP copyright issues from the American Society of Media Photographers: http://asmp.org/tutorials/enforcing-your-rights.html#.UnJjfyQjH-k "Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), you can force the Internet Service Provider (ISP) hosting that site to remove or disable the site, so that it cannot be viewed." eBay has their own process. It can be found here: http://asmp.org/tutorials/enforcing-your-rights.html#.UnJjfyQjH-k Warren
On my daily rounds, I came across this channel mass-uploading chasers' tornado videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChHtlWHfQn5ucO8HTyAzPlg/videos
Another tornado video mass-upload channel discovered today: http://www.youtube.com/user/TornadaChannel
Another mass-uploading channel I came across today: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WfCHlySQa9ALszKp5RcoA
The spammers, thieves and content scrapers have been rampant as a result of the recent outbreaks. Anyone who has posted footage from these recent events has probably been affected. Here's one of the more prolific infringing channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/expert7715/videos Here's a bookmarked search on Youtube for "tornado" sorted by recent date that should make it easy to find if something of yours has been taken: https://www.youtube.com/results?sea...query=tornado&search_sort=video_date_uploaded
