Wazzup Pilipinas!
"A friend of mine contacted me earlier and told me that he saw a picture of mine posted on the website of Bonifacio Global City. I wasn't aware of any people from BGC that asked me if they could use my photos on their site. I checked their site and surprised to see that my "Tatakbo Ka Ba?" picture was used without my knowledge whatsoever. It is really undeniable that this is my shot that they have taken from my Flickr page that I posted last August 30, 2009. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrmercado/3870203779/ Dear BGC, you cannot hire a photographer? Really?" - Neall MercadoJust helping share this disappointing act of the BGC official website of using a photo without any form of credit to the real owner.
Breaking news: 'pwede na kayong magshoot sa BGC basta ipagamit niyo lang ng walang bayad sa amin'-- BGC MgtWelcome to the Home of Passionate Minds that's soon to face a copyright infringement case! BGC, do you have a lawyer already? Why yes you do. But i guess you will just put it down from your site, right? You're better called the Home of Lazy and Unoriginal Minds.
At may nakalagay pang ganito:
"All content on the Website, including, but not limited to, design, text, graphics, other files, and their selection and arrangement (collectively, the "Content"), are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.
No Content may be modified, copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, sold, or otherwise distributed in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without FBDC’s prior written permission."
Did they have my permission to use my photo in the first place? - Neall Mercado
Apparently, the BGC website is claiming ownership of the photo already...hehehe
It would be nice to find out if the owner of the photo will try to sue the BGC management or whoever was responsible in grabbing the photo, cropping it to intentionally remove the ownership, and posting it on their website.
As of this writing, the photo is still up on the BGC site...and I guess it will stay there until the holiday season since the site admins must still be on holiday break.
Good luck to both parties, may they all have a Happy New year
Ross is known as the Pambansang Blogger ng Pilipinas - An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professional by profession and a Social Media Evangelist by heart.
Its hard to comment here when both of the sides did not stated their own comment about the situation. But I just want to say that a person should be careful in getting pictures especially you are famous. And also if you were getting an information ir photo make sure that add credits to the source.
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