It's unfortunate that I have to contend with so many... | Alex Wild

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It's unfortunate that I have to contend with so many companies just swiping my photos for their marketing material without permission or payment. But this is the absolute weirdest: a live insect trafficking company, of dubious legality, has copied my self-portait from a few years back in Ecuador, and uses it on their "Our Story" page, as if I'm the dude out there poaching the ants for them.

#Copyright #Smuggling #Entomology #Ants

Image of a biologist in a rainforest holding a plastic vial

Like 15 Jan 2024 at 15:13 | Open on mastodon.online

8 comments

Sam

15 Jan 2024 at 15:14 | Open on toot.community

Andrew Benedict-Nelson

@alexwild Sure you don't have a doppelgänger?

15 Jan 2024 at 15:15 | Open on lor.sh

Rachael Ludwick

@alexwild Wooooow.

15 Jan 2024 at 15:19 | Open on freeradical.zone

LionelB

Graze and Nightshade useful for disrupting AI harvesting.

15 Jan 2024 at 15:26 | Open on expressional.social

Alex Wild

@lionelb this is not that, though.

15 Jan 2024 at 15:46 | Open on mastodon.online

Lisa 🦔

@alexwild Eww :( Any chance serving them a DMCA takedown notice via their hosting service would be effective?

15 Jan 2024 at 16:08 | Open on mastodon.social

Alex Wild

@mycrowgirl I’m pondering that, versus sending this off to ImageRights, my regular enforcement service that seeks payment.

15 Jan 2024 at 16:10 | Open on mastodon.online

Lisa 🦔

@alexwild yeah, if you’ve already got an enforment service… if they’re that brazen for the landing page, probably more scraped content farther in 😬

15 Jan 2024 at 16:16 | Open on mastodon.social