Editorial & Readers Lives

Staff · Issue 23, Mar/Apr 2005 · pp. 4–5

Products mentioned: PhotoRescue, Nikon D100, Nikon D2x, Subal housing

Editorial Photo piracy Dear fellow divers and u/w photographers. Recently, the lark struck me and I typed in my name in the google.com search engine. Imagine my astonishment when a picture of mine popped up on a web site yet they had neither asked me for permission to use one of my pictures, nor provided any credit whatsoever. In contrast, when the British Society of Underwater Photographers” announced that issue no. 11 of UwP (with my coverphoto on aquarium photography) was available, they correctly displayed the copyright symbol and named me as the photographer. As an amateur u/w photographer, I probably would have been tickled had they just asked me - perhaps in exchange for a future free dive. But now, instead of tickled, I am ticked off. Nobody can just ʻborrowʼ (i.e., steal) my - and your - pictures without permission. May I suggest that you type in your name in a search engine as …