Ingenuity
Structural
- May 17, 2001
- 2,374
I was doing an online search a few days ago (engineering-related search on unbonded post-tensioned concrete tendon failures) and deep within the search results I found a link and PDF document (from a Canadian structural engineering consultancy web site - FIRM 1) that includes a photograph that I took back in 2002.
The company is using the photograph in a promotional/informational manner, without credit.
I do not know the engineering FIRM 1, nor any of its current employees.
I checked my digital photograph library and found the original subject photograph - along with other similar photos I took from the project on the same day.
I have never uploaded the photograph to the internet.
The photograph is distinctly mine - the project location, the building, and the subject matter are very unique.
After doing a bit of 'digging' I found a connection from the subject photograph to FIRM 1. Back in 2002 I requested a proposal from an engineer working for FIRM 2 (a Canadian firm) for the subject project and sent him some photographs of the building. This engineer left FIRM 2 sometime well after 2002. The engineer evidently worked for FIRM 1 until about 2017 at which time he has left to another firm. That appears the only logical link of the photograph that I sent to him at FIRM 1 to FIRM 2, albeit that he no longer works there.
A bit convoluted.
Anyway, given that I took the photograph and there is no credit given, nor permission for use, I am going to email FIRM 1 a 'cease and desist' letter.
By me emailing a copy of the photograph to the engineer whilst he was at FIRM 2 does that complicate the infringement, or is it irrelevant, given I did not give permission for use or transfer of use?
The company is using the photograph in a promotional/informational manner, without credit.
I do not know the engineering FIRM 1, nor any of its current employees.
I checked my digital photograph library and found the original subject photograph - along with other similar photos I took from the project on the same day.
I have never uploaded the photograph to the internet.
The photograph is distinctly mine - the project location, the building, and the subject matter are very unique.
After doing a bit of 'digging' I found a connection from the subject photograph to FIRM 1. Back in 2002 I requested a proposal from an engineer working for FIRM 2 (a Canadian firm) for the subject project and sent him some photographs of the building. This engineer left FIRM 2 sometime well after 2002. The engineer evidently worked for FIRM 1 until about 2017 at which time he has left to another firm. That appears the only logical link of the photograph that I sent to him at FIRM 1 to FIRM 2, albeit that he no longer works there.
A bit convoluted.
Anyway, given that I took the photograph and there is no credit given, nor permission for use, I am going to email FIRM 1 a 'cease and desist' letter.
By me emailing a copy of the photograph to the engineer whilst he was at FIRM 2 does that complicate the infringement, or is it irrelevant, given I did not give permission for use or transfer of use?
