Using my copyrighted photos with my permission
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A site called Daniel Recipes is using at least one of my copyrighted food photographs without my permission, even though my photo is clearly marked with a copyright symbol. This is the home page of the offending site, https://recipes.danielrap.com/
Here is one example of my stolen photo https://recipes.danielrap.com/green-tomato-soup-recipes/
and here is my original photo and recipe on my WordPress blog.
https://wannabetvchefblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/green-tomato-soup-with-roasted-chillies/
The site was created with Generate Press which I believe is a stripped down version of WordPress. The owner of this site has not just stolen my photos but the all photos that are on his site. I am so angry but I will try to stay calm and go through the points I want to make.
1.) I contacted the support of Generate Press and Leo Hsiang Support Specialist said he could not help, he suggested contacting the hosting company of the site but did not give me any information on how I could do this. Furthermore, there is no mention of who hosts Daniel Recipes on the site itself so how am I going to find out?
2.) WordPress and Generate Press should clearly tell new users in PLAIN English not flowery ‘legalise’ that they can NOT take other people’s photographs or writing and copy and paste it onto their site just to generate traffic. My food photos are part of my livelihood and I spend a lot of time creating the food and photographing it.
3.) I have also attempted to contact Generate Press via twitter and got no response. I also tried contacting Tom Usborne the lead developer of Generate Press and still got no reply or help.
4.) This kind of theft happens to me from time to time because my food photos and recipes are high in Google rankings and WordPress and other creators of similar platforms to need to pay this issue far more attention and proactively help when users have problems of intellectual property theft. Yes I can send a TAKE DOWN NOTICE to the user and the host but first I need to find them. And sometimes there are a lot of ‘middlemen’ in the attempt to hide the name of the host company. I am not sure if the site is actually live yet because I cannot find yet in Google searches.
5.) The internet needs to clean up its act and protect users from abuse. Hidden ownership usually means the website in question is up to no good and should not be allowed.
6.) WordPress needs to do more than have forums, they or Automatic need to create systems and software that protects the end-users from abuse and create an easy path when intellectual property theft takes place.
Can someone help me find the owner of this rogue site and the hosting company? -
Can someone help me find the owner of this rogue site and the hosting company?
Hi there,
The site uses Cloudflare.com to mask the site’s IP address and hosting details.
Please try contacting Cloudflare by using the form at the link below. The form contains an option to forward the DMCA details to the company that’s hosting the site.
https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form
As the site is not using the hosted service here at WordPress.com, Automattic has no control over it’s content, and neither do the developers of any open-source software the site might use.
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Hi there,
“WordPress” has no control over this. WordPress is free, open source software, made by a community of unpaid volunteers on WordPress.org. Anyone can download that software and install it on any server to use for any purpose. You don’t need to register or sign up for an account anywhere to use that software, so quite literally no one has any control over who uses that software nor over how it is used.
The forums you’re posting in now is for the hosting provider, WordPress.com. We only have control over sites that are using that software on our servers, and we have a detailed process for dealing with copyright infringement documented at https://en.support.wordpress.com/copyright-infringement-what-to-do/
But as @garysixtyeight points out above, the site violating your copyright is not hosted on our servers, so we have no ability to act in this case as we have no control over that site. Only the hosting provider can help you, and in this case the fact that they use CloudFlare is the only information we are able to give you, and that the domain, danielrap.com, is registered with Namesilo.com.
The site was created with Generate Press which I believe is a stripped down version of WordPress
GeneratePress is a WordPress theme, a template that merely controls how a site appears. Like WordPress itself, that theme is open source software, and the creators of that theme likewise have absolutely no control over who downloads their theme or how they use it. They definitely won’t be able to help you with any copyright-related issues.
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