TropicOrchidees.com (Frédéric Diebolt) Brazen unethical commerical theft of member photos

I'm glad to see that the pics are coming down so quickly. I recognized a few other photos on there but it appears like he just cropped out the owners name and/or water mark from some of the pics. I thought the one picture was one of Dale B's and it appears as if he just cropped his name off the bottom. Frustrating for us and unbelievably audacious on his part.

 

I tried to find out who grew it because it is an incredible plant/blooming.

 

That is a fabulous bit of knowledge!!!

 

And it works like a charm. It takes you right to Ed Merkle's image, rather wonderful for checking on image thieves.

 

So, I'm taking a coffee break and found where some of the phal images come from. Shot of an email to alert that photographer.

 

Google image search: I found one from my website. Does anyone have his email?
His use: http://www.tropicorchidees.com/orchidees-botaniques/343-dendrobium-crepidatum.html
My image: www.marniturkel.com/mostlyspecies/f.d.crepid.750.html

He did go to the trouble to crop the image and my name.

 

Tom, I see you are/were a member of OrchidBoard. He used this one http://www.orchidboard.com/community/miniatures-show-tell/43591-platystele-stenostachya.html. Maybe you can let the person know. I should be working, but what better way to pass the time than tracking down pirated images. I've found quite a few.

Jacob, I think that the Schoenorchis gemmata was mine, but it was down before I could track it back. Thanks for the email address.

 

I sent him an email. He still has a couple images posted that he took from my website. I've spent a bit of time now looking up many of his images. There have only been a handful that couldn't be traced to someone else's image.

 

I didn't actually ask for communication.

 

Paul, I've also notified a number of people about the use of their images. So far not one has said they gave permission. At least one was taken down over night.

However, he has not removed these two.
His use of my image: http://www.tropicorchidees.com/orchidees-botaniques/343-dendrobium-crepidatum.html
My image: http://marniturkel.com/mostlyspecies/f.d.crepid.750.html

His use of my image: http://www.tropicorchidees.com/orchidees-botaniques/270-vanda-javierae-syn-javieri.html
My image: http://marniturkel.com/mostlyspecies/f.v.jav.532.html

 

He has now taken mine down. At least we know he is following this thread carefully.