Post by Otto Rapp
First of all, I would like to wish everyone in our community a Merry Christmas!
#facepalm
I like to share an e-mail that had me quite upset today:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Visionary Art
Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:48 PM
Subject: XXXXXXXX has reported an issue on Visionary Art
To: Otto Rapp
XXXXXXXXX reported the following issue on Visionary Art
URL Reported: http://visionarytribe.ning.com/photo/the-exodus?commentId=2675382%3AComment%3A139302&xg_source=msg_com_photo
Issue:Fraud
Additional Information:Hi,
I am XXXXXXXX and I've published some of my imagery in Visionary art.
I was outraged to see that when I googled my name I did see among my imagery some that somebody's else images advertised trough Visionary art....using my name and the name and description of my imagery.
Example: http://www.vagallery.com/visionary-paintings-xii.html
Please fix it ASAP or I will take my art of the website.
It is wrong to use my name to promote somebody's images.
Thanks
XXXXXXXXXXX
Network: visionarytribe
User: XXXXXXXXXXX
Email: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9
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From: Visionary Art
Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:48 PM
Subject: XXXXXXXX has reported an issue on Visionary Art
To: Otto Rapp
XXXXXXXXX reported the following issue on Visionary Art
URL Reported: http://visionarytribe.ning.com/photo/the-exodus?commentId=2675382%3AComment%3A139302&xg_source=msg_com_photo
Issue:Fraud
Additional Information:Hi,
I am XXXXXXXX and I've published some of my imagery in Visionary art.
I was outraged to see that when I googled my name I did see among my imagery some that somebody's else images advertised trough Visionary art....using my name and the name and description of my imagery.
Example: http://www.vagallery.com/visionary-paintings-xii.html
Please fix it ASAP or I will take my art of the website.
It is wrong to use my name to promote somebody's images.
Thanks
XXXXXXXXXXX
Network: visionarytribe
User: XXXXXXXXXXX
Email: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9
For additional questions or to contact Ning, please click here:
http://help.ning.com
My reply to this, and subsequent e-mails
can be viewed by registered and logged in members
of our Visionary Art Network only:
Since that exchange (and subsequently there were more e-mails) XXXXX left the network.
After this, I 'hid' the public page from search engines and made it invisible in the index and site map.
What remains when a external link directs to the public page is this disclaimer:
should you be directed to this page by an outdated link, please note:
Quoting XXXXXX from an e-mail dated 22.12.2015:
I don't want my name and my image 'XXXXXXX' to be on the cover of this 100 artist album....and I absolutely don't want the images of this 100 artists being associated with my name and my art.
I subsequently removed images from all references - and XXXXX later removed all uploaded images from the network site and left the network(a short step ahead from banning, so it saved me the trouble).
After this, I 'hid' the public page from search engines and made it invisible in the index and site map.
What remains when a external link directs to the public page is this disclaimer:
should you be directed to this page by an outdated link, please note:
Quoting XXXXXX from an e-mail dated 22.12.2015:
I don't want my name and my image 'XXXXXXX' to be on the cover of this 100 artist album....and I absolutely don't want the images of this 100 artists being associated with my name and my art.
I subsequently removed images from all references - and XXXXX later removed all uploaded images from the network site and left the network(a short step ahead from banning, so it saved me the trouble).
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