Duplo's blog

Contact them and ask what the hell they think they are doing?
Its appalling behavior from anyone let alone an official tourism site.

The Who-is info for greenland.com if you wanted to contact them offline.
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=greenland.com

seems their site administrator is in your own town.

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Wonderful shot of the Aurora:up:

Someone at the tourism center should know about that.

You need to do something about that, and they should pay you for it.

Awesome pictures as usual!

Here in the USA we have a saying "What goes around, comes around."

Whoever did the bad deed of mis-appropriating your photography may very well have some bad karma coming their way!

(Not to mention that in small societies and small towns, everyone knows everyone else's business!)

I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, since people seem to think that real life rules of morality don't apply on the internet. Although it's a terrible thing to see your work ripped off and used to sell something, I think you're lucky to actually catch them in the act.

I'm sure many people go without knowing that their work is plagiarised in the same way.

Hope you succeed in getting some justice.

Take care

P.S. Nice work above as always.

I have heard of this happening in the US. A friend had a photo "stolen" by a publishing company. She contacted them and told them they didn't have permission to use her photo. It actually took about three tries, but finallay, the company removed her photo from the internet.

I don't know how copyright laws work in Greenland, but maybe there is something you can do. At the very least, they can giv eyou credit for the photo!

Or, since they liked your photo so well, perhaps you can arrange to be one of their official photographers!

I love the aurora phots. I have never seen this in real life. One day, perhaps.

I have heard of this happening in the US. A friend had a photo "stolen" by a publishing company. She contacted them and told them they didn't have permission to use her photo. It actually took about three tries, but finallay, the company removed her photo from the internet.

I don't know how copyright laws work in Greenland, but maybe there is something you can do. At the very least, they can giv eyou credit for the photo!

Or, since they liked your photo so well, perhaps you can arrange to be one of their official photographers!

I love the aurora phots. I have never seen this in real life. One day, perhaps.

I guess you´re in a position where you can demand a fairly large fee for that photo - since they will have an interest in not suffering bad publicity.

Do get in contact with them - I hope and believe that this is the act of an individual. Surely it can´t be the official policy of the company.

Well, Duplo, he lives in your town; couldn't he have taken the photo himself, too?

People have taken photos from my blog, too! The whole thing, erased right off my blog, where the photo was, nothing is there! Be glad that didn't happen to you. This happened right here on Opera. One person took my photo and said he was going to fix it up and by his fixing it up, then it was going to go towards his photo credit! Then he erased my whole photo!!!!!

Here in the states, unless you pay the copyright fee and have your photo in the governments' copyright's offices, even if you do say your work is copyrighted, and indeed, you do have that opportunity by mailing the photos and negatives (if you have negs) to yourself and never opening up the envelope until you are in court, which is called the "Poor-man's copyright", if you intend to sue...

Bottom line, the internet is free and used by all, people should be complemented that their work is even noticed in such a very large world and suing people who might use your work without mentioning you or asking you would turn into a very large expense for you which you may not at all be compensated for.

Turn this into an opportunity, Duplo, not a negativity.

Yes, YES, I believe people should state where photos come from and who took them!!!!!!!!

People have stolen my work, too, and I have seen it on calendars and they never gave me any mention at all. I have seen my photos in newspapers under anonymous, where I donated photos to a group(s) for them to use in their paper. It is aggravating.

Yes, that's annoying, and you should do something about it.

But, no reason for being angry. This means only one thing - that your photos are good

Well, the filename does give you credit, then?

Yes, I am not a lawyer.

that sucks! try putting a watermark over your photos????

To find out about US copyrights, go to www.USgov.net

They have a cartoon that explains it all nicely.

hmmm. I seem to have missed all the controversy (drama?)

But am glad that you've found a solution to it. Beautiful photograph as usual Mr. Duplo - what's with all the talk about not quite being up to standard? Looks great to me

Good to hear you got it sorted to your satisfaction:up:

I can't believe they didn't modify the filename! I always hope that if I get ripped off, at least I have the RAW files as 'digital negatives', which would prove fairly convincingly that the photos would be mine.

Glad all is now resolved and that you can retire early from their paycheque