Margarita Family Restaurant
I PRY! The photo above was used by one blog and put their watermark on it!!!!!!!
I hope some blogs are well mannered enough to source our blog in using our blog’s photos albeit they don’t have watermarks on it since I believe putting watermarks are ugly as hell. But I believe in being courteous. I think that blogging is about expression, and expression is about acquiring necessary sources to create a meaningful and narrative experience to readers. But with this comes the responsibility of being gracious to elements used especially when it’s NOT theirs. Is it because their website/blog is old and ours is new or theirs are famous and ours is not yet, that they think they have the right to grab all of the novice blogs’ photos without our permission? Without even sourcing us? I believe a “source: ” is enough; actually, blogs can use our photos without sourcing us, I won’t pry THIS MUCH, BUT putting their OWN watermark (with logo and all) on my photo is a mark of a plethoric self-indulgence and moral decay. Their rebuttal will always be ‘because it is public’, but this act of online plagiarism only goes to show how unethical the people/person working in that certain website/blog is and how people should feel in disdain for someone like this. This blogging community should not be a community of squalor, sordid and uncivilized individuals, instead I aim to call upon those who do blogging to BE ETHICAL.
I should be investigating in this website/blog if they still used some of my photos and I will surely call upon their attention for strike two.
