To promote my upcoming book
I opened an IG (@thecipherbook_miami)
posting pics from back then and book-related stuff

So today for #tbt I posted an unreleased pic from the night I interviewed Phife (in 98, around when ATCQ broke up)
tagged and shouted out those in the pic with me

One of these (who was my man back then but like Nas said "best friends become strangers")
Takes the pic and tweets it to his +7k followers
no shoutout, no credit, no mention of my book, nothing

My first impulse was to DM him asking WTF?
but I fell back (I didn't DM him)

Thinking on it some more
yeah let him get his shine, whatever
I'm updating my db and keeping all receipts

The other person in the pic
DMs me "yo dope pic, thanks for posting"

I mean, that's the social media age now
once it's posted, it's out of our hands
But I still feel a way

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

Like I said, dude was my guy back then
FML

Now I have to DM dude

I can see on twitter he should ahve retweeted instead of copying and reposting. But what about to another platform?

Congrats on the book.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Pic didn't materialize out of thin air
but yeah, I'll be watermarking from now on

i've started putting @wrecknoble watermarks in my IG photography for concerts, because I am starting to get some exclusive shots of artists

i know the artists themselves may not shout me out if they repost a picture of themselves (which i feel they have the right to do), but at least my watermark is there

today was the first instance where a photo I posted of a local artist ended up getting used by a college radio show to promo their interview with this artist. they didn't tag me on IG or anything, but my watermark is clearly visible in the bottom right corner

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(this is all in response to you question about what recourse you have)

pretty much all platforms have a place to submit a misuse complaint

that said its up to them to determine if there is a violation (i didn't see you claim that he is saying your ex-friend took the pic or that it belongs to him)

the SHORTEST path seems to be simply telling the re-poster to change his posting to give you credit as owner of the pic in question

he took it, but I kept the pic all these years
yet he re-posted on his IG and gave credit to my account (which is all I want)

Anyway, what's done is done. Gotta learn shit the hard way in the digital era

shoulda credited, but...

it's easier to deal with the longer you've been active

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at