Just wanted to make a PSA if you're a photographer who shares your images on social networks.
I recently went to the Nauticam website to research a dome port for my GH5 camera. I was a bit surprised to find one of my photos on the nauticam website used to promote a housing for the GH5. (See attached photo). I and several other people who had photos taken without permission contacted Nauticam and their initial response was that they were not violating any copyright laws and the use of our images was legal. Further, they stated our use of the #nauticamhousing hash tag was implicit permission to use our photos.
As complaints mounted, Nauticam removed the images they had appropriated, but never apologized for using them without permission.
So, just be careful out there. You may not know your images are being used to sell products for which you have not given permission. Especially be careful with hashtags. My image was taken from Instagram but others had theirs taken from Facebook.
There is a thread on wetpixel.com about the ongoing issue:
http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?sh ... 7&p=394984

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