okey, i've been too lazy to write a journal about this here but maybe it's time, and maybe this is a good place to get some new information from people out of Croatia which are not accessible to me...
so here is the story... two months ago i accidentaly found out that my photo titled "the sound and the fury" ( [link] ) was printed out as a part of Lee campaign in the i-D magazine over two pages... you can guess my shock when i heard about it. i went out to get that issue, and there it was ( [link] , [link] ), streched from a resolution of 800x600 px over two pages, interpoled, cropped, and signed by a certain "faust89" from Burgas as his own, as one of six best photos from the "makehistory" competition (www.makehistory.eu) made by Lee company for their new campaign. i surfed around and found that entry in the competition on their online pages ( [link] ), where it was also written that the best picture stories will be published in the most prominent international fashion magazines for the Lee campaign, and also installed in Lee's flagship stores all around the world. this is exactly what happened with my photo... soon after seeing it in i-D magazine, i got a call that it was also published in Dazed and Confused magazine, and Italian Vogue. few weeks ago i also got mailed by a man who form Atena, Greece, who saw this photo on the internet and remembered that it was mine. and then he sent me photos taken in Atena showing my photo on very large posters and billboards ( [link] , [link] , [link] ) . i was shocked again!
i hired an attorney and now the suit is in the process, but it's a really complicated situtation.
i still can't believe that a company that big and well established as Lee would do something stupid as this... all they asked for the competition was a photo of a size of 800x600 px and anyone who has access to internet could have downloaded one and sent is as theirs... and by their stupidity now one of my favorite photos is distributed all around the world in the function of their campaign, it's even destroyed and someone called faust is signed for it, not me!
argh!
things like this happen all the time, and it's really time to make something to stop this stealing all around! you can't protect your photo with a watermark because they're so easily taken off, and you can't protect it by small size because you see that even the most prominent magazines published the 800x600 px photo over two pages!!!
now i'm wondering what to do.. this situation really pisses me off, specially because i don't get the people who steal one's work and take their credits as they didn't do anything wrong.
well, faust89, who ever you are, i hope you saw how far "your" photo got and that you're burning of remorse somewhere, because you're looking into a hell of a suit, if not by me, then definitely by Lee.

oh, i got taken away by my feelings, i just wanted to ask all of you who read this that you (please!) notify me by note or mail or smt like that if you see it somewhere else because it could be on the billlboards anywhere in the world at this moment and that i'm not aware of it.
so thank you in advance and keep your fingers crossed that something good comes out of this..