Seems an appropriate place to put this but the U/W photo section is probably handy as well.
In short there is a Egyptian company trading under "Divecovery" where the owner and operator Reda Mansour has been stealing photographs from other users (mainly professional photographers), photoshopped out the logos and watermarks and passing them off as his own to advertise his company in particular on his facebook.
In addition to that the images are misleading as a large number of them were not taken in the Red Sea (Mexican Cenotes being called Blue Hole, Sea snakes which aren't found here and so on).
This post from very well known Aaron Wong highlights exactly what he's doing:-
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?....189970465836.170040.711105836&type=1&theater
Several of mine are on there and a lot more from friends all with the same result.
The people involved have complained to FB but as yet no action taken but complaints are on a per-image basis so obviously its time consuming. The main purpose of this is to alert people and any photographers may want to check his page to see if their work has been plagiarised on there and if so can make the appropriate complaints.
FWIW asking him to remove has just resulted in the individual being blocked by him so they cant comment any more.
In short there is a Egyptian company trading under "Divecovery" where the owner and operator Reda Mansour has been stealing photographs from other users (mainly professional photographers), photoshopped out the logos and watermarks and passing them off as his own to advertise his company in particular on his facebook.
In addition to that the images are misleading as a large number of them were not taken in the Red Sea (Mexican Cenotes being called Blue Hole, Sea snakes which aren't found here and so on).
This post from very well known Aaron Wong highlights exactly what he's doing:-
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?....189970465836.170040.711105836&type=1&theater
Several of mine are on there and a lot more from friends all with the same result.
The people involved have complained to FB but as yet no action taken but complaints are on a per-image basis so obviously its time consuming. The main purpose of this is to alert people and any photographers may want to check his page to see if their work has been plagiarised on there and if so can make the appropriate complaints.
FWIW asking him to remove has just resulted in the individual being blocked by him so they cant comment any more.
