cactuseros.com

hob · Post by **hob** » Sun May 15, 2011 5:22 pm

Daiv have you seen this site ?? i found it with google today, dozens if not hundreds of the images are copied from cactiguide, i saw at least 8 of my own images on just 3 pages

see this page as an example

http://www.cactuseros.com/GenerosEspeci ... das/R.html
Rebutia albiflora
Rebutia aureiflora
Rebutia brunescens
Rebutia caineana
Rebutia leucanthema
Rebutia minuscula
Rebutia oligacantha
Rebutia spinosissima

are all my images from cactiguide

scroll down further to Rhipsalis baccifera to see your hand holding one of your plants

anyone know what language that is ??

Scottyzx12 · Post by **Scottyzx12** » Sun May 15, 2011 6:28 pm

The language seems to be spanish. Most strange.

tumamoc · Post by **tumamoc** » Mon May 16, 2011 12:17 am

That is unscrupulous!

Post by **daiv** » Mon May 16, 2011 6:27 pm

Here we go again!

I have not seen it. I will work on getting this stopped. Thanks for the heads up.

Daiv

Post by **daiv** » Mon May 16, 2011 6:28 pm

Looks like he's taking from cactus-art as well - watermark and everything:

http://www.cactuseros.com/Especie/20185 ... flora.html

hob · Post by **hob** » Mon May 16, 2011 6:31 pm

daiv wrote:Looks like he's taking from cactus-art as well - watermark and everything:

http://www.cactuseros.com/Especie/20185 ... flora.html

yes i saw that one too

Post by **daiv** » Mon May 16, 2011 11:04 pm

Update: I have contacted the site moderator and the admin, so far it seems they are agreeable and will get the issue fixed. It seems the images were probably added by users and not the site owners.

Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon.

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Tue May 17, 2011 12:50 am

A few of my images up there too. All images lifted directly from here. Good eye, Hob.

peterb

Post by **daiv** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:54 am

The site owner has proved to be very helpful and so this issue should be resolved quickly. Here is his response:

Hi David,

I'm the owner of Cactuseros.com. I truly apologize for the issue that you have described in the forum.

The problem is that our users upload their own pictures, I always ask not to use other website pictures.
I am a wildlife photographer, so you can be sure that I know very well about copyrights.

Please, let me know what pictures are those that were taken from your website and I will do my best to
remove them and/or ask the community to replace them with other pictures from their own collections.

Best Regards,
Agus

I am so glad this will be an inconvenience, but not a battle!