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I have sent a report of image theft and email to:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/

 
This is the email sent:

Subject:     Stolen image
Date:     Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:17:16 -0700
To:     Jonah This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

This photo (http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/3/22/17/enhanced-buzz-10764-1332450083-22.jpg ) is of my grandson, and one of my puppies.  It was taken from my website, which is very clear as to my intellectual property rights:
http://www.blueknightlabs.com/

This is a link to the jpg only, which was uploaded to the directory on 2/26/2004:
http://www.blueknightlabs.com/lab_fun/pupkiss.jpg

This is the web page it is from:
http://www.blueknightlabs.com/content/view/93/116/
Please note several copyright notices on the page.

Please remove the image from your server.  I have added a link to your site from our "stolen images" page until it is removed.
http://www.blueknightlabs.com/content/view/209/1

Thank you for your assistance in this matter,
Dian Welle
WP-ORG

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They did not respond to my email, but did respond to one from my daughter.  Interestingly, they removed the one from Pintrest, but not from their buzzfeed site:

    Date: Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:14 PM

    Subject: my nephew

    To: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

    Mr. Peretti:

    Please be kind enough to remove the photo listed at

    http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/3/22/17/enhanced-buzz-10

    764-1332450083-22.jpg, as your posting this picture is clear theft of

    intellectual property belonging to my mother and violates the personal

    safety of my young nephew.

    Respectfully,

    Deborah O_____

 From: Peggy Wang [mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ]

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 6:07 PM

To: Deb O_____

Subject: Re: my nephew

  Hi Deb,

We've duly removed the photo from the posting.

Sorry about that!!

--Peggy 

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 From: Peggy Wang [mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ] 

I removed the image from the post.  The dev team is working on removing the actual photo from the server.

Take a look at the "email us" graphic on www.labinthesack.com

This is a website belonging to:

Registrant:
Sherry Sack
1405 School Lane
Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020

That email graphic is ours! This is the original graphic

 uploaded to our server on 4-19-2002:

The puppy in the graphic was bred by us in 1998 and this is the image of her that the graphic was made from:

I sent them the following email:

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 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:44:51 -0700
To: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
From: Dian Welle < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Subject: "email us" graphic

Hello,

I often allow people to use my graphics if they first ask permission and second give me credit for the work that went into making it.  I notice you have one of my graphics on your page:
http://www.labinthesack.com/Assets/emailus.gif

Please provide credit to me for using it.

Thank you,
Dian Welle
Blue Knight Labradors
www.blueknightlabs.com

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No response, no compliance with our request.  

So, you'll have to decide if these folks are as honest in dogs as they are in other areas.  I know what I think! 

Purchase puppies only from reputable/honest breeders ! 

 
Other breeders may wish to check this page to see if any of the images of their own puppies have been "borrowed" without consent:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sherrysack

https://www.facebook.com/labinthesack

 Intellectual Property Laws

Feel free to comment on your thoughts of these practices.  You can send them a little note through their email addresses I have provided, above. 

Dian