one of my HDR's was stolen!!

they should read their own privacy statement.

start documenting everything and contact that lawyer!

Wait a minute. It's not your picture. The clouds are different. Maybe not.

Subscribed. I'd like to see how this turns out

looks the same to me Mitch, even the cars are in the same spots!

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looks the same to me Mitch, even the cars are in the same spots!

I noticed the cars also , it's your photo . I hope everything turns out on your favor.

dang - the folks at that fish wrap certainly have some brass ones - hope you score big $$ (or at least some!)

Is this your first cover shot??

Zacker - take a look at your original(s) - the EXIF data may (should) have the Serial Number of your camera embedded in it. For the ultimate "FU", take a picture of their coupon clipper with the same camera and send them a screen shot with your original image and the photo of their cover side-by-side with the EXIF data Serial Number displayed for each image. Is there anything in your original hi-res image that would allow you to verify the date/time that you took the original (as embedded in the EXIF) - you know, like: is that a clock on the steeple of the church displaying the time - something in the scene that matches your EXIF time/date? I know it is ridiculous, but if you can "prove" that your originals are yours, you are halfway there. In other words, if I were them, I would make you prove YOU took the original shot. I know it sounds crazy, but I am a cynic, so I will play Dr. Evil in this reenactment.

Obviously, if they took a screen shot of your image from somewhere it will have none of your EXIF, but it does not take much of an effort to demonstrate that it compares exactly with yours - i.e., image elements that are dynamic (cars, clouds, things that move) are exactly the same. Even if the same car parks in the exact same place each day, I am guessing the cloud formations over the scene change and are never identical.

Good luck. I would love to see the image they claim is theirs - i.e., their "original" file. It will have no EXIF and will probably be 72 dpi - i.e., not taken by a camera. If they cannot demonstrate the "provenance" of the image, then I would guess they would have a problem. Where else might you have posted the image (i.e., where else might they have copied it from)? I recall seeing it in the Forum, but that image may have been a hotlink from Flickr. I am no lawyer though, so what the hell do I know.

I suppose watermarks are ugly and distracting, but I bet you start using them.... Hey, look at it this way - you are published! Congratulations!

Good luck, I am staying tuned for this mini-series!

Kirk

EDIT - if you take that screenshot image I referred to above, DO NOT POST IT ANYWHERE! Keep all that data to yourself.

*grabs popcorn*

By the way, these are the people responsible for the web design of the newspaper's website:

http://www.9summer.com​/

Go get your paycheck zacker!!! Keep us in the know....this should be good!

**Subscribed**

Might also be an idea to make some screen grabs of their website - they've used your photograph twice on there.

Dude - funny thing. I just copied the image on their website from the header. Check out the filename of the image, straight from their website - how does that compare to the name you gave it Zacker?

No other EXIF or other metadata (the creation date, etc. is from when I copied the image from their site to my desktop).

Kirk

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Yeah the clouds look different. :O

I did a Google image search with the term "milford, ct image" - your image was the 7th hit, listed at this address:

http://www.flickr.com …iscuss/72157602​144703759/

I was able to drag a copy of the image straight onto my desktop. However, the image name was: "482585431_8b8f94a78d.​jpg".

These guys need to pay. Nobody that stupid should get away with it.