Copyright Infringement Reports (Review guidelines in post #1 before posting here)

[Chris Vagasky]

Mike H:

Your Alvo, NE photo was used on The Weather Channel as a submitted iWitness weather picture.

http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/04-6-13-1573.jpg

Claiming to be from "Near Greenville, KY"

 

[Chris Vagasky]

You all may want to check: http://iwitness.weather.com/service...=recent&tab=yes&includePhoto=on&d-7095067-p=1

This user keeps taking other's photos and using them as iWitness weather pics.

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

Someone may want to download and check the iPhone app "Tornado Video!". While I have no idea if the videos that are contained are infringements or not, the image they chose for the icon of the app gives me the impression that they may just be grabbing their content off of the Internet, since that image is one of the more pirated images out there.

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

Also, the app "Blown away with tornadoes!" features a Hollingshead shot. No idea if it's a legit license or not.

 

[Joey Ketcham]

Mike's picture is already being passed off as being the Tuscaloosa, AL tornado:

http://mypictures.abc3340.com/MediaItemView.aspx?id=1219524

 

[Jeremy Gilchrist]

It didn't take long before I had to have a duplicate of my Wilson, NC tornado video removed on YT.

 

[Jason Foster]

http://www.youtube.com/user/HardcoreStudio1

Check the videos uploaded here just today.

Looks like they are still stealing stuff.....now they have video from the AL/MS etc. events.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-real-photos-2-pg,0,5324381.photogallery

1 is Reed, 61 is Nguyan

 

[Jim Saueressig]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkV0CrrWkO4 from yesterday's Wichita event.

 

[Adam Simone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkV0CrrWkO4 from yesterday's Wichita event.

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.

 

[Jeff Duda]

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.

 

[Andrew Stoller]

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.

 

[Dan Robinson]

http://www.youtube.com/user/SelectedVideos4U/videos

This user is ripping dozens of chasers' tornado videos, many from this last event.

 

[Wes Carter]

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.

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[Jeff Snyder]

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.