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I recently had a person use one of my photos in their blog to illustrate their story. While the story was nice, and my photo did go nicely with it, they did not ask my permission and didn’t even credit me or link to my site. Instead, they directly used MY photo and said nothing about where it came from. I could have ignored it and let it go. But, it really bothered me that they had done this. Therefore, I found a way to take the pic off of their site with a little notice replacing it that states how taking people’s pictures without asking is wrong. This isn’t done out of malice, revenge or anything like that. I simply tried to tell them that if they had asked my permission, I would have gladly granted it. They didn’t. So I took it back. If they were to now ask me nicely, and apologize for taking it, I would gladly give the picture back to their story.

To some of you, this may seem odd coming from the person who believes sharing music is lovely. But, that’s just it. When people play, display or comment on our music it’s always stated that it is in fact us. This person did not do that. So, I will be posting a Creative Commons stipulation on this site very soon to anyone wanting to use my photos in the future. As long as you credit me and don’t try to profit financially from my photos I have no problems. Nothing on this site is for sale. Especially if it was not done so by me. Now, where did I put those watermarks??

A non-aggressive Christa Belle

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