{"id":72,"date":"2007-09-01T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetneil.com\/tangents\/2007\/09\/01\/you-know-youve-arrived-when\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T05:52:07","slug":"my-entire-website-ripped-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/my-entire-website-ripped-off\/","title":{"rendered":"My entire website has been ripped off!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My entire website has been ripped off!<\/h1>\n

You know you’ve arrived when\u00a0other photographers start ripping off your images and text from your website. I was double lucky here – my entire website was appropriated by another photographer.<\/p>\n

How I discovered this – a friend\u00a0let me know that when googling my name, there is a link that comes up\u00a0with another photographer’s website.\u00a0 So I checked it, and sure\u00a0enough – there it is with\u00a0some of my images, and a copy of the original HTML-based design of my website, One Perfect Moment, as it appeared at the time. My entire<\/strong> website ripped off!<\/p>\n

Above is the screenshot\u00a0of the Google search. I then\u00a0followed the trail to this photographer’s other website.\u00a0 And it is all duplicated there as well – the entire website, and some of my images.<\/p>\n

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That’s the screengrab of the one page, with an\u00a0image\u00a0from a wedding I photographed last year.<\/p>\n

Here’s the photo as I had it on my blog post at the time.<\/p>\n

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\nEven better, the bio section on Mandy Austin’s\u00a0website sounds strangely familiar. A real sense of Deja Vu.
\n(I blurred the non-relevant text.)<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here is another image that was ripped off from my website :
\n(Again, I blurred the non-relevant text.)<\/p>\n

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This image too is from a wedding I photographed last year, and here is the original photo.<\/p>\n

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\nMandy Austin Photography, imitation (not plagiarism) is supposed to be\u00a0the sincerest form of flattery.<\/p>\n

And even if your website designer ripped off my website’s design wholesale, you have a certain measure of complicity for appropriating images and text for your bio<\/strong> that are not your own.\u00a0 It is unethical to misrepresent yourself like that to clients, nevermind the plagiarism.<\/p>\n

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Edited to add:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shalyn from Florida Website Design\u00a0who seems to be mostly responsible for
\nthe rip-off \/ wholesale mis-appropriation of my website, has now contacted me.<\/p>\n

So for anyone who has been following this debacle from the various photography forums that I posted this on, please check the Comments here for further updates.\u00a0 And thank you for all the support I’ve been getting here and via emails and private messages.<\/p>\n

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My entire website has been ripped off! You know you’ve arrived when\u00a0other photographers start ripping off your images and text from your website. I was double lucky here – my entire website was appropriated by another photographer. How I discovered this – a friend\u00a0let me know that when googling my name, there is a link Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[409],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zero","8":"tag-photo-thieves","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49231,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/49231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}