I found two of my images on what seemed to be from a County Council's heritage/archaeology department. It's an 'org.uk' domain name
Except my images were not anything to do with that county or heritage/archaeology. They seemed to have been taken along with the accompanying story from a news site which had licensed them. One image is credited to a major magazine from where it has been nicked.
I contacted the county council department and they told me that yes they had commissioned this website but that it no longer belongs to them and they have no control over it. The Way Back machine shows that the domain and site has been in use for over twenty years. I see that some of the content - logo, attribution statement, text on webpages - is still in place.
The mystery to me is how can a third party 'take-over' the domain and content on this site and use it for its own purposes - it seems that they are trying to push advertising.
I think it is true that the Council no longer owns the site and so it looks as though I won't get anywhere chasing the infringements. But it seems that they have been at least careless to lose control of the domain and content and I just don't understand how it could have happened.
I'm wondering if anybody more website savvy than me has seen this sort of thing before?
I feel reluctant to post the URL here but would be pleased to share information if contacted by email
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I found two of my images on what seemed to be from a County Council's heritage/archaeology department. It's an 'org.uk' domain name
Except my images were not anything to do with that county or heritage/archaeology. They seemed to have been taken along with the accompanying story from a news site which had licensed them. One image is credited to a major magazine from where it has been nicked.
I contacted the county council department and they told me that yes they had commissioned this website but that it no longer belongs to them and they have no control over it. The Way Back machine shows that the domain and site has been in use for over twenty years. I see that some of the content - logo, attribution statement, text on webpages - is still in place.
The mystery to me is how can a third party 'take-over' the domain and content on this site and use it for its own purposes - it seems that they are trying to push advertising.
I think it is true that the Council no longer owns the site and so it looks as though I won't get anywhere chasing the infringements. But it seems that they have been at least careless to lose control of the domain and content and I just don't understand how it could have happened.
I'm wondering if anybody more website savvy than me has seen this sort of thing before?
I feel reluctant to post the URL here but would be pleased to share information if contacted by email
geogphotosATgmail.com
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