Another case of image theft.

Kruiswijk is posting images from photoblogs with some type placed across the top. He seems to be claiming that this might be art.... Either way the images are posted without attribution and there's some rejoicing on his part that he's "abusing" photobloggers' images.

I suggest you take a look and see if any of your images are amongst those stolen. If they are send a polite email to aat@derebbel.nl and ask for them to be removed.

Comments on proceeding are welcome.

As the photoblogs community grows there have been more and more reports of members' images being used without their permission or even being stolen outright and posted on other sites with false attributions.

We feel that something must be done to support members and highlight those people that are aware that what they're doing is wrong and keep doing it. So, to start with, we have created a new category for the blog, 'Theft Reports', which we will use to report instances of image theft from our members and hopefully help discourage image theft.

This post is to highlight the image theft taking place on a photoblog called shanghaiviva. This site has posted many images from other photoblogs without attribution and, according to the about page, the images are "a selection of my latest projects". So far we've identified images from Chromasia, John Washington, Yamasaki, Chromegenic, Mute and possibly others. If you see your images on there let us know. So far the owner of this site hasn't responded to emails or comments asking them to remove the images.