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Question: Friendship trouble!. Who's right!? and who's wrong!?
My friend is really into photography, i enjoy it as well!. We used to go out on photoshoots!.i would fiddle around w/ her camera too!. She has a deviantart account and she would post her work up, but the thing is she would post the pictures that i took and pretty much claim them as her own and she never asked me if it was okay w/ me!. which bothered me, but i didn't make a fuss about it!. Well just recently i bought myself a camera and i started to get more into photography, i made myself a deviantart account!. & what i did is I took the pictures that i took from her account and put them on mine!. i only took pictures that i shot though!. well she found my account and she left me like hate mail on my pictures that i took that were on her account and she said that i was stealing her work, because she had "edited" them and she felt that they weren't rightfully mine, but she claims she doesnt have the originals!. She says i should give her credit!.but she doesnt give me!. i have a right no!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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I've had a problem like this before!. Quite a few people seem to have a bad habit of stealing artist's work and claiming it as their own!. Copyright infringement is a huge issue to all artists and all of us should fight for our work!.
But if your friend edited the images and manipulated them in such a way that it doesn't represent the original image, legally it is her work!. It just can't resemble your own!.
But If you are serious about copyright and it still looks like your work, you should take your images and legally register them!. If you don't have the originals, then and only then, can you sue someone for infringement!. Your friend probably does not have legal copyright so the title is still up for grabs!.
I feel very personally about this sort of issue so I cannot tell you to keep or disregard the friendship but its better for your friend to learn that lesson from you then from somebody like me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Is this issue really worth your friendship!? Credit or not what do you really get out of it!? If she was making loads of money off it then I'd say it's worth persuing!. But if all it's about is getting credit for it then I would say pick your battles wisely!. We all know that she's in the wrong but this is small potatoes!. Don't sweat the small stuff!. Be the bigger person and let it go!. You have a new camera so go out there and make something better!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
no she didnt have the right to take your pictures and edit them and make them her own!.
honestly, I'm not sure you should but you COULD sue her!
but I doubt you will!.
tell her to delete them now!. and you'll delete yours that she thinks is hers!.
and START OVER!.
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The person who took the pictures is the person with the real talent and does have more rights!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
absolutally!!!you do have a rightWww@QuestionHome@Com