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Unfortunately, it seems that someone contributing to the zooeydeschanel tumblr has discovered us and chosen NOT to reblog images that we've posted or reblogged, but instead post them as their own.

secondhandjoy:

zooeyclaire:

This is related to the reason we started watermarking images. We have noticed images from our personal tumblrs and from this tumblr not being credited, which is poor etiquette, and defeats much of the purpose of tumblr in our view. These are not only our images that are not properly credited, but many of yours too! We hope you will continue to follow us because we’re still committed to posting, and as always, we welcome your submissions!

There’s a lot of this going around at the moment. Most of the ones I notice of mine I try to contact the person directly (formspring, email, etc.) but some still refuse to reblog/credit properly. Example: thechocolatebrigade vs. my original - I’ve asked several times that it at least be credited properly (i.e. not to some shitty xanga that stole it from me) if she won’t reblog. Personally, I’ve never had a problem with zooeydeschanel, they’ve always reblogged and credited me properly, but it’s sad if they’re starting to do it too because they have so many followers. I’ve been considering watermarking from now on too. Tried it a couple of times, haven’t decided. Might become a necessity, which is kind of sad really.

As one of the admins of zooeydeschanel, I can only say that mine and my co-admins posts are properly credited when credit is available/due. Reblogging may not be possible, but we will credit the original image holder when we can. As for our contributors, if you take issue with one of our submissions, please, let me, or samsantos know immediately, via tumblr contact information. When dealing with credit, though, its hard to say who truly deserves credit for some images. For instance, if I do a Google search of Zooey Deschanel, I can point out the same image being posted on numerous blogs/sites/feeds. In that instance, its hard to say who deserves credit, because one can ask, where did you find the image? We’re trying to keep an honest community here, so I take no issue with any legitimate complaints you have. If you do have a complaint to register, please send me and/or samsantos an e-mail with the URL to the image on zd, the URL with a dated original image on your site, and credit to where you found said image, unless it is your personal property. I’ve got a couple of things in the works to help against people saving images and not crediting them when posted, but don’t forget- you can’t just watermark images that don’t belong to you. Unless you took them personally, technically they are still the property of the photographer, and Zooey herself. Hope this helps!

Sincerely,

stevejmeyers