Website Selling Images Illegally...

Send them a DMCA notice. They will most likely take it down. There is little else you can do really. Watermarking may reduce the temptation for your images to be grabbed. That may also have an impact on sales. When you offer an image you want people to fall in love with it at first site and a watermark gets in the way of that. I have had an imge used by a site in Bulgaria. It was public information site that accepted ads. No biggie. They took it down when I asked. I keep my watermark on because the chances of losing revenue with it on are greater than the chances of losing revenue with it off. I try and look at the illegal uses as free advertising for the full size image which can be found by Google Reverse Image.

FAA is the only place online that I use the Watermaring, Amy, and I have now issues ... FYI. Thanks for the alert, very interesting.

It doesn't matter what website you are posting on. They find the image on Google Images not by going to the actual sites.

I have used this type of notice before...

To the owner of the Xxx.com site.
Address
City, State Zip US
Phone:
Fax:

Hello,

Please be advised that you are illegally offering my copyrighted photographs on your web site Xxxx.com.

This email notice is for you to remove all of my images from your site immediately.
Or you may continue to offer my images on your site for a royalty fee of $500.00 per image.

You have 48 business hours to remove my images or contact me to pay the royalty fee.

If additional contact on my part is required I will be asking for your company to pay all legal fees to my attorneys for your illegal use of my copyrighted work.

Please advise on how you intend to handle this matter by end of business
day today X-XX-14.

Your full name
Your email address

CC: Better Business Bureau XXX State

Personally, I have offered they provide attribution before take down. ...... it usually works out better and they come back and do it right the second time.

Thomas. That is useful information, but do you really think there is a BBB in Bucharest, Romania?

Thanks for all the info, guys. Just wanted to share, in case other FAA members had images on that website. Some of the images looked familiar. I sent the woman a notice, so we'll see what happens.

Hello Bradford Martin,

No I do not think they have that type of office out there.
I do think it's just a boiler plate form that needs to be adjusted for each occurrence.