| Joined: | Wed May 23rd, 2012 |
| Location: | Illinois USA |
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So my brother got married last weekend and the wedding photographer had "calling cards" made and left them on the table for the guests to take and visit the website for the wedding shots. To my surprise, my photographs were on these calling cards...The cards have the photography company name and website all over the card and also had the company's "copyright statement" ((C) Copyright XXXXXX) on the back of the image.
Now obviously I'm going to wait until my brother gets all of his photos before I do something about this, but what should/could I do? I don't know where this photographer got these images or if my brother even gave them to him, but the fact is that he used them and claimed the work as his. My copyright is in the digital exif information, so you would think that they would have seen that and known not to use my photos without my permission. What sort of recourse do I have with this? I feel like he is impersonating my work and causing my business harm by stealing my work...thoughts???