http://www.flickr.com/photos/53240095@N05/

I'm noticing a lot of lifted photos on this flickr page. And the moment somebody brings it up in the comments, the comment gets immediately deleted.

Suspicious? I mean, isn't there something saying that he can repost some of those pictures on there anyway?

I noticed many of my images on his Flickr pages also, mostly of barefoot street painting artists. Those of us with Flickr, Webshots, MySpace or other pages reap no financial or other reward for the collections we have posted, other than to share with everyone. My pages consist of web images and wherever possible I invite anyone to email me if they wish an image they believe is theirs to be removed. I would NOT post any image from a pay site because I believe that is a violation of their intellectual property and TOS. If I paid for something I am not about to give it away.

This being said, there is one Flickr member who has stolen the identity of another's SO. I emailed the "victim" who has demanded the thief take down their photos to no avail. No doubt due to this, I have not seen any new activity from the original poster (unless I am 'color blind') which is unfortunate for everyone.

He has been using some of my images as well. I wrote him a PM last year and now he adds my link underneath the pics, which is fine by me.
I´m sure if you contact him privately he will either remove your photos or add a back link.

-Hal-

I like that visiting that guys account. I get a lot of great pics there I would not otherwise find. Some of the "everyday" shots are buried in photo sharing sites and it is time consuming to find them. Thanks for saving me time! I did find one or two of my photos there. But it did not bother me and I am glad he likes some of my pics.

i used to post pictures on flickr until someone decided they'd use my images as their own. I reported it to flickr just after they closed MY account for copyright infringement. As you can imagine i wasn't particularly happy about the situation as they did nothing about is account. Therefore i won't be posting pictures again, at least until people can stick to the rules and my requests when i specifically asked "please do not repost any of these pictures - if i find them anywhere else i will stop posting"

regards

This is serious messed up. Too many thieves on there - including this bfforhealth douchebag.

And...I mean...he isn't even posting barefooters anymore! What's wrong with him.

It is so unfortunate that others are deprived from seeing your photos because one or two selfish people have violated your property. This is like punishing the whole class because one pupil did something wrong. While one point of view is that anything posted on a free public site can be interpreted as not having reasonable expectation of exclusivity, one should respect a request for not reposting or publicly sharing. In the few cases where I was asked to remove images on my Flickr I did so immediately with a respectful email apologetic reply.

Found another thief...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23751562@N04/

YES! They took down "bfforhealth!"

Five points!

but we seemed to have lost 'barefootgirls' the australian and british photos...

barefootgirls my photos on flickr have been deleted i do not no why i have new sight on flickr barefootgirls1 thankyou to all how looked at my old sight thankyou

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66858781@N08/

NOOOOOOO!!! He's back! Guys, PLEASE! Help me gets this penis booted off of flickr again!

Guys...PLEASE help me get rid of this fucking thief! :<

Just a few thoughts. City Feet has no relation to Flickr so I will only post once and not use CF bandwidth for something for which they have no control or probably any interest. He has changed names and this cycle will no doubt repeat itself even if his new name is deleted.

This poor guy has 2000+ images deleted and is too much of a bother to reload them. He is unwilling to pay for a Pro account which allows more than the free 200 images. Someone must have complained. Do ya think?

If any private images are posted by someone on Flickr and they do not willingly remove them, complain to Flickr and be specific about which images, when you emailed them requesting removal, etc. That's about all you can do. I know that some of my Flickr images have been lifted and reposted, however, they were from public, free sites and I have no standing to complain as I cannot claim ownership. It's only fair.

The guy doesn't pretend the pictures belong to him, he says he took them from www, it means, public domain.

I think he is just sharing some of his favourite images, that's all. He doesn't pretend to make money out of them.

I don't know if Stanley Not Kubrick has a personal crusade against all image thieves in the internet or only against this particular guy for any specific reason. As far as I know, and correct me if I am wrong, Stanley Not Kubrick hasn't ever produced nor shared any original material here in the Forum.

Not even Paul nor Hal seem to complain, I would change the question to "What's the deal with Stanley Not Kubrick?"