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Where is the alleged copyright infringement, and where is the copyright of the material that is allegedly copyrighted?
Are you referring to this photo that is on the internet?
I don't see anywhere on this particular website that is linked to your profile that shows a copyright notice of any kind.
Nor do I see on this particular image any type of notice of ownership or copyright.
Also - I see a resemblance to the image you claim to have ownership of, but I can't tell for sure if the image that you're accusing scubaboard of infringing upon your uncopyrighted material is actually the same image. Perhaps it will take some further investigation, and contacting of the parties involved with making the banner ad that is appearing on this website (scubaboard) but isn't necessarily created by scubaboard, or endorsed by scubaboard.
We'll get right on this though...
In the United States since the 1980s (sorry can't remember the exact year) copyright is immediate and automatic. One doesn't have to give notice that a work is copyright because it is. Unless given permission such works are fully protected.
Thanks. The year is useless trivia so it is hard for me to rememberIt is 1989.
And really none of that matters. Granted the OP would need to show they are the owner of the work but it really doesn't matter where the person who made the banner got the image. Taking images off the net and using them (without permission) in a commercial work just ain't right.But hypothetically speaking, as I'm not actually an agent of the company that owns scubaboard... If this item were in fact copyrighted by the person who is claiming that it is. The item is posted on the internet, and quite frankly, the person who made the banner may have found this image on someone else's website for all we know.
Kate:
You are confused.
Here is the SB ad that contains a copy of my image...