 | says on his profile:
"This flickr account is set up for uploading shots I have taken of bands, events, and any type of activity that’s not included in my main portfolio.
With this being a community site I have had some troubles with people stealing my work and claiming it as theirs under their own name and then trying to cover their own tracks. I have no problems with people using my work, and I don’t need to be credited (I’m a tad bit modest). Just don't post my work under your name.
If you would like to see my portfolio of my normal work, please visit
www.kevincorazza.com
- Kevin Corazza
I'm Male.
Chicago, USA"
real "modest". this man deserves "serious harm and damage".
Posted 28 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | I find that so odd that someone (like this Corazza guy) would do that. And to such lengths. It's like they've talked themselves into believing their own untruths.
Posted 28 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | unbelievable. if you have the means I say take him to court. it's not defamation if it's true.
Posted 28 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | for those of you who are following along this silly drama....
kevin. got your letter. dumb move bro: you should get in touch with me before you make an even bigger fool of yourself. i'll give you 2 hours to reply to this email before i post again including a copy of the cease and desist.
--
kk+
bryght.com
kriskrug.com
kris@bryght.com
778. 898. 3076
On 3-Aug-06, at 6:39 PM, Kevin Corazza wrote:
I didn’t come to you personally because I thought you would just laugh at me and not take it down regardless of what I could possibly say to you. My actions may have seemed extreme, but it’s the only thing I could come up with for you to take the post down. The fact that you now want to post the letter shows that even if I did send an email to you asking for it to be removed nicely, the email would have been posted as well to embarrass me.
==============================
You deserve to be embarrassed.... you stole my work and claimed it as your own. You've yet to do anything that resembles an apology or show any remorse so the only recourse I have to is to call attention to your actions.
What I've wanted since the beginning is an admission and apology... and then for you to go away. Short of that, I hope that the exchange rate on US dollars is favorable 'cause you're about to spend a lot of of money on an international court case.
kk+
Posted 28 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | "kcorazza is no longer active on Flickr."
That didn't take long for him to take his ball and run home.
Posted 27 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Hey kk, I really need to improve my Google rank. Can you publicly humiliate me for something dumbass that I did?
Posted 27 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Kris, we are sure, that a lot of friends are behind you ! Kevin Corazza
deserve to be embarrassed he has stolen your work and this is true.
Posted 27 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | go kris! shooting down one douchebag at a time.
Posted 27 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | idiots are just running rampant these days
ps: we do really need to meet up sometime, run around the city, and take photos of things.
Posted 27 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | We have this guy in our little country town that dresses up like a police officer. He drives an old police cruiser and occasionally successuflly pulls over unsuspecting folks. Some of the regular town folk feel sorry for him. Me? I look forward to tazering him. I wonder if Kevin Corazza has a plastic badge?
Posted 27 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | ha! good thing i copy/pasted his profile.
part of me does feel a little bad for the guy. i mean, this drama is rather silly, no? one mistake is one mistake, no need to multiply that with further stupidity.
Posted 27 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Whacked.
Posted 26 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | He should be apologizing, not suing. This "threat" will never hold up in any court, for any reason. You've done your due diligence by thoroughly describing the situation and adding numerous updates. He has his chance to explain himself.
Posted 26 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | As a designer who has a client serving a legitimate cease and desist on a competitor for using stolen brand marks, this makes me sick. The best thing to do is to retain your counsel to send a "cease and desist your own sory ass" letter back to him. It's a face off, where he wants (or his lawyer wants) to see if you are willing to go to court over it. They are assuredly betting you are not. Prove them wrong.
Posted 26 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | What a crazy kid.
Having that webpage up is punishment enough for him. I mean, it's not like the law would've done anything to compensate for what he did so why take it down, it's his fault. Look at Adam Curry when that tabloid stole his flickr photos and published them. They got a slap on the wrist and were told "not to do it again".
Posted 26 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | He should hire a copy editor instead of a lawyer.
Not being able to write also does damage to his reputation.
His site sucks and is all flash, so I can't link or do an easy cut and paste,
butg check out his about page.
"I don't want to pigeon hold myself to one type of area in photography..."
"The pictures on this site are not able to be saved do to copyright restrictions."
There are others, but I've spent enough of my time on this guy.
I hope someone convinces him to drop the legal action, so he doesn't waste too much more of your time.
Posted 25 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Crazy kk. Stand firm, he's just being stupid with letters he can't back up. Of course it's damaging to his reputation, and it should be. That's what you get when you rip people off--a damaged reputation. Lets get that blog post up to #1 on google :)
Posted 25 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Kris Krug on the warpath:
Posted 24 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | someone should digg this perhaps? It's a good story and the publicity may help.
Posted 24 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | And, of course, to be really sure this guy gets the point, one could use the words "Kevin Corazza" in their link to this page, so that future searches for him in Google pop this up even higher.
i.e. www.todmaffin.com/blog/2006/08/03/why-the-internet-doesnt...
;-)
Posted 24 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Check. www.steve-lacey.com/blogarchives/2006/08/kris_krug_being....
Digg: digg.com/design/Photographer_Sued_By_Plagiarist
Posted 23 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Dude, that's hilarious. Mr. Corazza is going to...how do the kids put it...get p0wned.
Posted 22 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | I am speechless.
Don't know wether to start calling the idiot bad names and worse insults or just drop the topic as he is not worthy of our bits and bytes.
I'll go get a drink instead.
P.S.: Obviously you have loads of friends to help you out, but I know a couple of romanian bodybuilders...
Posted 22 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | The lady doth protest too much, methinks:
www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2006/08/kevin-corazza-all...
Posted 22 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | This kind of problem of not observing licenses is on the increase as individuals, companies see they can view images with restrictions. Kris how did you come across your images in the first place?
ps: Note the spelling mistake on the title, 'Does My Creative Commons Liscence Cover This Kevin Corazza?'
Posted 20 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Poor misguided Kevin, what have you done to yourself, LOL. I blogged it too, I hope it doesn't give the guy notoriety, you know what they say about "any publicity".
Posted 17 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Rock on kk, I can almost feel sorry for Kevin Corazza. But not quite! ;-)
Posted 15 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | G'morning guys. Wow. Thanks so much for you support. This whole situation is crazy and had me pretty stirred up... but it feels awesome to have all the backing. Much love and onto bigger and better things. :)
Posted 14 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | what a SHITTY letterhead ;)
Posted 14 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Kevin, if you're reading this...
Kris isn't a bad or malicious person, and if you had emailed him immediately and directly, saying you were sorry and embarrassed, and explaining that while you knew you'd fucked up, you didn't want to see your career ruined over it, he likely would have taken the post down.
I was with Kris on the trip where he took those pictures, and it was a very special adventure -- which just made what you did that much more offensive to us both. I was stunned.
I actually hate to see anyone getting picked on like this, but honestly, all you had to do was admit to it and apologize. And I'm sure this goes without saying, but just think a little before you go stealing people's special memories like that.
Posted 14 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | so... he can steal your photos, claiming they're his own. He can repost them online, while stating he took the pictures.
But, if you take action to have the CC license enforced, and mention this online, he claims damage to his reputation.
Uh, yeah. There is damage to your reputation, Kevin. Because you violated the Creative Commons license and publicly stole and republished some photographs.
There should be damage to your reputation. Learn the lesson, find a place to sulk for awhile, then move on. And don't do it again.
Posted 13 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | k
you just stirred up some internet drama.
this one is a gooder.
Posted 12 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Hmm well the publicity isn't working out well for mr.Corazza.
All this fame just made me look at his site portfolio. Perusing his work, my main thought was 'painfully average'. There was a couple of nice ones, but judging by the lacklustre quality of the rest, they were probably accidents.
So Mr.Corazza, in my humble opinion, you suck, not just at life, but photography too! Good job!
Posted 12 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | You should check with that law firm. I wouldn't be surprised if ol' Kevin stole their letterhead and fabricated that letter too. Kevin lives in Chicago, right? Why's he using a Canadian firm from the west coast?
Posted 12 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | This stuff is priceless. What a fool Mr. Corazza is.
Posted 12 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | omfg...
whack-a-mole.
;-)
Posted 12 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Stealing photography. How stupid can you get? It's very annoying, somewhat discouraging. I've had a music group use my images on their cover without permission, and I know how that feels. This guy has a lot of audacity to claim that you stole the images from him!
By the way... this is on the front page of Digg.com right now!
Posted 11 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Here is what I googled for the firm:
www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Cancer/Adam/ISP-compl...
www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Cancer/Adam/ISP-compl...
It is possible that the letter is a fake.
Posted 11 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I emailed the firm asking about it so we'll see.
If they end up suing Kevin for fraudulently using their name, I'm laughing my ass off
Posted 11 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | It's not fake. I spoke the to lawyer here in Vancouver yesterday on the phone.
Posted 11 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | It looks like he went for a Canadian lay firm. That way he doesn't have to go anywhere *if* this makes it to court, I doubt it will.
Macleod & Company
Posted 11 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | lets all visit plagurist's web site and drive up his bandwidth cost
Posted 11 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Honestly, there's really some messed up douchebags out there.... keep me posted if kevin ever gets around to apologizing.
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | I'm probably being redundant here, but what a moron.
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Just have him prove that the photos are his. If the photos are yours, then you would have the original files right? either in RAW or TIFF's in which it has the EXIF data embedded in it right? Time, Date, Camera Used? Or if he or you used a 35mm then you have the negatives right? This seems kinda simple to prove who's being a douche bag or not.
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | I think I found some pretty good evidence of another plagiarism look here at a screen-shot of the guys flash page trogdoor.googlepages.com/Picture1.png ( I can't give a link because of poor use of flash ) now look at the same photo found on flickr www.flickr.com/photos/stitch/49206156/ notice that this is "Kevin's'" only photo with the Fuji at the top and bottom yet all of Stitche's flicker photos have it ( from scanning in actual film? ). All you people wanting proof, there you have it plain and simple. I doubt any of the photos on Kevin's site are actually and since I found this in ~ 5 min. please others look at the rest of his pics @ kevincorazza.com/ and find the real photographers behind "Kevin's'" work.
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Yep Trogdor looks like you got him. Ha!
And yeah I have all the negatives. :) And some of the pics he posted were of Sarah... so unless she's been hanging with Kevin and not telling me or something. LOL.
:)
Thanks again for all your help and support guys.
*hugs the internet*
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | HOLY CRAP!!!!
Kevin's website has a picture of a band taken up against a brick wall. A BRICK WALL! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
OMFG!!!! TEH BRICK WALL N00B! pwn3d!
That's about as creative as posting a comment with the words, "OMFG!" ,"TEH", "N00B!", and "pwn3d!"
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | The internet has your back.
Set your phasers to Destroy.
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | look here at a screen-shot of the guys flash page trogdoor.googlepages.com/Picture1.png [......] now look at the same photo found on flickr www.flickr.com/photos/stitch/49206156/ notice that this is "Kevin's'" only photo with the Fuji at the top and bottom yet all of Stitche's flicker photos have it ( from scanning in actual film? ).
nope, make that the first FOUR photos in that set... all taken from stitch's stream.
kevin, the fucking audacity! i suggest changing your name and disappear off the face of the internet, and dont come back til you are ready to APOLOGIZE!!!
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Sounds like he is unintentionally wasting his money and handing you a good opportunity for internet fame ;)
Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | You are not the only one affected:
flickr.com/photos/latitudes/31696716/
This picture is identical to the one at kevincorazza.com/ landscape, second set (Wisconsin countryside), third photo on the third row.
Good luck.
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Ol' Kevin looks like he's about to be run over by the internet bus of Justice.
HONK! HONK!
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | 17,000 +views?
I am actually a little saddend by all of this...not the views, but that someone would sell their soul for such a little thing.
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | This one is also stolen:
www.flickr.com/photos/latitudes/21135466/in/set-629348/
In the same set as Pako Pirata describes above.
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Profile of Kevin Corazza on filckr, Google cache.
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Even more interesting photos 'by' Kevin Corazza:
www.soundthesirens.com/photos/categories.php?cat_id=4&...
More stuff from google about him:
name: Kevin Corazza
location: Soon somewhere in the city
school/major: Columbia / Film Concentration: Editing
old board name (if applicable): same name
occupation: Photo Lab Tech
food: Mexican/Italian
color: Green/Blue
favorite bands: Apocalypse Hoboken, The Jazz June, Braid, Oblivion, Wilco, Cap'n Jazz, many, many others
cool stuff: I am a photographer and film dude. Like to go to shows, write and run a zine www.ufzine.com and another message board
www.thekidskilledrock.com
Oh, and doing a whois on 'thekidskilledrock.com' gives this info:
Kevin Corazza
1008 W. Racine
Chicago, Illinois 60607
United States
I think it meant to be South Racine as there doesnt appear to be a West Racine. *shrug*
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Looks like your standard C&D. Contact the lawfirm and speak to someone willing to listen, im pretty sure they will drop it after reading the post and this and seeing their client has no leg to stand on. Just stop talking about it or talk to a lawyer yourself in the meantime =)
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Try comparing Kevin Corazza's "City - Chicago" page with Giant Ginko's Chicago Set.
I wonder if any of the pics in his portfolio aren't stolen?
Posted 9 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Strike three see trogdoor.googlepages.com/Picture2.png and www.flickr.com/photos/jgarber/39035532/?
Anyone seeing a pattern here... Please somebody else help me with this as it is so far really easy and not knowing flickr very whell you guys could probably find the origionals much more easily than I can.
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Does his lawyer know that he currently showcases other peoples' work on his site claiming it as his own?
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Rowers on first landscape page on kevincorazza.com =
www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/61906503/
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | you dont understand!
Kevin is a Meta-Photographer. He takes no actual pictures of his own, he collects what he likes from the net and claims them as his own.
We're the ones who are behind the times!
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | It doesn't look like he's suing you. It looks like he aked someone with fancy letterhead to write you a letter. No court is involved.
I wouldn't be intimidated, if the statements you make are true.
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | You got served...he's getting OWNED.
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Found one ;-)
TIme lapse, second set, last picture.
www.flickr.com/photos/mydnight296/50952959/
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | www.google.com/search?q=Kevin+Corazza
Looks like his site still has the top 3 results. Keep linking!
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | blogged.
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | trogdoor.googlepages.com/Picture3.png flickr.com/photos/latitudes/30625856/
WOW you guys are a lot faster than I am, be sure to inform all the origionall photographers of the plagiarism. Does anyone know how I can mirror his entire page ( since it is flash ) so he can't deny any of this later?
Posted 8 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | This is like a game! Here is my entry: Look at Corazzas "Wisconsin Countryside" first picture of a windmill in a corn field, compare that to www.flickr.com/photos/latitudes/34708904/
BINGO!
(That's what we should call the game "Corazza Bingo")
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Somebody has some splainin' to do...
www.google.com/search?q=Kevin+Corazza
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | OK, this is just too easy... what a maroon!
Wisconsin Pics / Farmall tractor
The REAL photographer:
www.flickr.com/photos/latitudes/51014202/
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I'd say he's more a burgundy than a maroon
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | wow man... i was thinking about this the other day... some people post some really high res images to their flickr accounts... all it takes is one crooked bastard to theiv a career of their own eh? damn.
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | He took a bunch of photos from Johnny Blood's wisconsin collection.
And I have saved a copy of his website locally for posterity :)
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | What can I say, I'm a child of the TV generation (Bug's Bunny, Popeye, etc.)
KC Wisconsin Pics / Peppers w/ yellow flower
The REAL photographer:
www.flickr.com/photos/latitudes/51031802/
Hey Kev... couldn't you have changed 'em up a bit?
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | "He took a bunch of photos from Johnny Blood's wisconsin collection.
And I have saved a copy of his website locally for posterity :)"
How did you save the entire page? Or did you only save the one .swf with only the thumbnails?
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | hmm i'm not sure i understand what is going on here, but he's using my photos on his site
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | '... how did you come across your images in the first place?
...
From the comments I guess this is how.
'.... How did you save the entire page? ...'
pdf (adobe) will do this.
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | "hmm i'm not sure i understand what is going on here, but he's using my photos on his site"
You are not alone, there are others in the same situation.
BTW, your photostream is amazing.
Posted 7 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | shit dude.
he's got limonada's picture up there too!
(she just got her law degree... maybe she can help you out?)
what is going on?
Posted 6 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | from the 2nd lomo page:
www.flickr.com/photos/74128918@N00/66745542/
Posted 6 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | his entire "ETC" set are my photos
Posted 6 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | he stole one of my photos that has me in it! (pool time lapse)
Posted 6 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | for the person who asked how to mirror his page to save the evidence... get a screen shot of the offending pages. hit "prnt scrn" button then go into your graphics program and paste. the offending pages will be yours forever!
Posted 6 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | I think SiteSucker still collects all the files from a URL. Someone should try that.
Posted 6 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Yikes. Thanks to Puja's heads-up, I did find a pic of mine up on his website, too (http://www.flickr.com/photos/limonada/1366935/in/set-34951/).
I sent him a terse e-mail asking him to take it down immediately, and I'll pursue it further if he doesn't, but I can't really help out generally because I'm not licensed to practice law yet (just took the Bar Exam here in NY, so it'll be a few months yet before I'm official).
Good luck, Kris - keep us posted.
Posted 5 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | you could also download the entire .swf file by going to kevincorazza.com/kevincorazza.swf
then selecting flie > save
Posted 5 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | I've alays wanted to be a detective - thanks to puja for notifying the utata people - I did some "web sleuthing" of my own and found someone else he had stolen pictures from.
Lucky for us, a lot of the names he gave to his sets are searchable tags on flickr.
kevin corazza.com, portraits, page 5 "sisters," happens to be all photos taken by glynnish.
I left her a comment letting her know and directed her here because I don't know how in the world this will get solved.
Good luck to everyone.
I can't believe this guy!!!!!
Posted 5 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Kris you have my support and I enjoy your work. Clearly this thief has more issues now than he bargained for. In fact if anyone here has the $ and/or time, a court action against him could hold him accountable. Especially since he is stealing others work and clearly using for financial gain. BTW, anyone with a Mac can use the Grab feature to quickly get screen shots of his site for proof.
Posted 5 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Corazza is obviously an imposter, liar and one who embraces the morals of a weasel. Kick his ass KK. Bugs like him deserve to be squashed.
Posted 5 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | wow, seriously? this guy is a real piece of work! and he sure picked the wrong guy to mess with, there's already an article on beyond robson about this...
hopefully he will retreat from this dumbass move, but if not best of luck with this kris!
Posted 5 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Another stolen photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hi-phi/39531086/
This one is listed under Portrait, 2nd row, 3rd photo.
Posted 5 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Is there a tag "stolenbycorazza" perhaps?
Posted 4 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | It would appear that he has taken notice and removed the offening photos. Perhaps he's got the message.
Good luck with sorting this situation out.
Posted 4 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | For the record I recognize several of my contact's photos on his portfolio site too.
--
Seen in a dicussion of Utata. (?)
Posted 4 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I don't think he has taken all of them down just yet - page 6 of his portfolio "the elevator" are all photos taken from this set.
"stolenbycorazza" tag - hehe ;)
Posted 4 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Corazza is obviously an imposter, liar and one who embraces the morals of a weasel. Kick his ass KK. Bugs like him deserve to be squashed.
Word...
Posted 4 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Jesus!! I found another one!!
-This is on kevin corazza'a Madison, Wisconsin page.
Thanks kk for letting us use this as a way to out the crazy man.
unbelievable.
edited to say that - yeah - corazza has taken quite a bit from this guys photostream, but I think some others have already noticed that!
Posted 4 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | his photography career is probably over...internet 10000 kevin 0
Posted 3 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | more:
Most of his carnival set is from this set
Posted 3 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | His Portrait: Harriett set is all from egolego
Posted 3 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | CorazzOWN3D!
Posted 3 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | This ticks me off the more I read this. I have to say Kris you have taken the high road in this and are to be commended for just wanting him apologize and admit the truth. As a Chicagoland resident, this fool corazza does not represent what we are all about here. Most of us actually have ethical standards.
Dare I say a new term be created. We've been 'corazzaed"
Posted 3 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | please, please - I have screenshots for you if you want to let his lawyers know. This is crazy!
turtblu - I'm so glad you found that - I was looking. I guess I sort of thought he would have at least changed her name.
crazy.
Posted 3 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | "This email is written to demand that the Website be deleted from your web page."
Classic. Sounds like Jerry Taylor of Tuttle, Oklahoma: "Get this web site off my home page!!!!! It is blocking access to my website!!!!~!"
Posted 2 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Thanks again Liza, for informing me. He took five from my flickr set, "Sisters," which I posted at the end of last year.
If any of the photographers with stolen work are getting together on this, please be sure to inform me -- I'm angry and I'd be happy to help "p0wn" this guy in any way possible.
Also, any advice you can give on a way to get him to remove my images, I'd be happy to accept. I'm sort of puzzled, at this point, on what action to take.
Posted 2 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I just can't help myself...
Look under "Holga" second row center, with the handicap insignia.
The original can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/lookatmyhair/68205974/
Fun.
Edit - Looks like the second row second pic in holga is this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/lookatmyhair/68205732/
Shameless
Posted 2 hours ago. ( permalink ) |
 | Did he really take my photographs? If so, I have a REAL lawyer of my own that would like to speak to him. If anyone has proof (his web site is "off the air'), please forward proof to me. Unbelievable.
Posted 81 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Johnny Blood - I think "the life of liza" a few comments ago said they had screenshots. I'm sure someone will provide some. At very least his site has shutdown for now. By doing that his google search top ranked result is now Kris' blog post! Ahh the irony!
Posted 57 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | By the way, thank you to everyone who posted comments to many of MY photographs on MY Flickr stream regarding Kevin Corazza's theft of them. I appreciate everyone's investigation.
Some of you posted questions asking whether or not I took them from Kevin Corazza. Rest assured, I most certainly did not. And I have all of the RAW images to prove it, not to mention other forms of proof.
I sent Mr. Corazza an E-mail this evening imploring him to apologize and fess-up. I also asked him to provide a clear and coherent explanation of why he would steal the images. I told him that if he fails to provide an acceptable respond before COB Monday, I will have my attorney begin criminal and civil actions against him. If he lives in Chicago, given his tracks all over the Internet, I'm confident that my attorney will be able to hunt him down. If this is nothing more than a Colossal misjudgment on his part, I will accept his apology, provided he comes 100% clean. If, however, he doesn’t come clean, then I will use the resources at my disposal to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law and out him as the gadfly and pariah he is.
I may only be an amateur photographer, but I’m also the owner of my own company who has many resources in Chicago after having lived there for four years. I just hope he doesn’t doubt my sincerity and takes the easy road on this one.
Thanks again,
Johnny Blood (emphasis on the word 'Blood')
Posted 50 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | @Johnny Blood, I have saved the .swf file, but only the first picture of every set can be seen. One of yours can be seen. If you want me to send it to you please drop me a line.
Posted 49 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I will probably do so, Pako. I will wait to see if he responds to my plea first. If he does not, then I will be contacting you after 5:00 p.m. CST Monday for that information. I will probably begin contacting an investigator in Chicago to track him down. I will forward what I learn over the weekend with information I collect from all of you to my attorney if need be.
Posted 45 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Is this image a Flickr 'interesting' photo yet? :)
Posted 44 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | Almost 30K views, it should be...
Posted 37 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | His contact information when doing a WHOIS search at Network Solutions is:
Kevin Corazza
1008 W. Racine
Chicago, IL 60161
Phone: (630) 834-3498
E-mail: kevincorazza@yahoo.com
As someone said earlier, there does not appear to be a 1008 West Racine. Doing a reverse telephone directory search of the telephone number, however, reveals that it is a working number and that it is registered to the following person/address:
Susan Ejma
280 North Michigan Avenue
Elmhurst, IL 60126
What's more, that Network Solutions, Yahoo, and his web hosting company should have enough information to help track him down.
Posted 34 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I'm sure that his lawyers could help you contact him ;o).
Posted 27 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I doubt it...there is something called attorney-client privilege.
Posted 22 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
 | possible culprit? www.myspace.com/pullingwormsapart
Posted 21 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
| | I went ahead and emailed his hosting provider to let them know what's going on. I doubt there's anything they can do (his site is already down, maybe that will take care of it), but should there be anything in their terms and conditions (I couldn't find them), perhaps they can help.
I also emailed him regarding my own photos, threatening legal action.
Posted 9 minutes ago. ( permalink ) |
