I first wrote this post for my general photography website back in 2011, after dealing with multiple infringements of my copyrighted images. Sadly, it needs repeating, perhaps more so today. People are writing blogs or creating websites to generate revenue. They don’t necessarily write about what they know or places they have been, but create “content” to draw readers in, to generate money from their sites. To do this, some use the words, photographs, and creative works of others. They have not been trained in journalism, public relations or law, and think that anything they find on the internet is theirs to use. They couldn’t be more wrong. I have…


