Friday, March 25, 2011

The Miles Morgan Ultimatum: addressing the theft, copyright violations, and outright dishonesty/lack of shame of Captain/Mr. Miles Morgan

The Miles Morgan Ultimatum

As you all know, Miles Morgan is a thief, a copyright violator, and completely lacking in shame or critical self-evaluation. You can see more about that here. He has stolen the images of other photographers, meaning to emulate the composition and style of these photographers as closely as possible (a copyright violation and a violation of common courtesy). One of these photographers is Marc Adamus. Now, Marc Adamus is a coward who refuses to protect his copyright. Why? Marc sells a ton of bogus photo tours, which provide a great deal of his income. He’s afraid that if he enforces his copyright, sales of photo tours will dwindle. 

 We don’t know if Miles Morgan has taken a Marc Adamus photo tour. It’s quite likely that he has. We do know, by his own words, that he got started in this whole thing by taking a Photo Cascadia/NWphototours.com photo workshop. We’ve covered Kevin Mcneal and Adrian Klein time and time again. They are nothing but scam artists, gleefully selling bogus photo workshops to scum who want nothing more than a point & click process of copying real photographers and appropriating their vision. A workshop is a great way to learn the basics of being an immoral, shameless thief. 

 And Miles Morgan is a thief, period. He has stolen landscape compositions and thrown them on microstock sites for pennies. Not only does this steal away income from the rightful photographer, but it also devalues images that used to be worth thousands (theoretically) and completely destroys any possibility of future, legitimate licensing by the original photographer. Why pay someone $500 for an image license when Miles Morgan has an exact copy for $5? 
 Anyway, many would agree that the time has come to put a stop to Miles Morgan, and make an example of him, as well. Which brings us to the Miles Morgan Ultimatum.

Miles Morgan has 10 days to remove all images from all stock sites he has placed them on. It doesn’t matter whether he has, or hasn’t stolen some of the images in question. He has demonstrated that he can’t operate in an honest and ethical manner. He must never again place any images on stock sites or attempt to sell any images. He must cease offering prints of any sort on his website. 

Once these 10 days are over, a campaign will be started to have Miles Morgan fired from his position at United Airlines. If he’s so willing to commit theft and financial terrorism against other photographers, he doesn’t deserve to benefit from a six figure income that’s completely protected from the ravages of scum like himself. The campaign will target both him and United Airlines, using advertising, websites, blogs, and social media to spread the word. It will be clear that all blame for the boycott is squarely the fault of Miles Morgan, and the boycott will end once he is fired. Attention will be drawn to the fact that a senior pilot engages in unethical behavior and theft, as well as the possibility that he consumes illegal substances for recreation or performance reasons (he does know Ryan Dyar, after all; come on!). 


Miles Morgan will be publicly exposed for the lying, thieving psychopath he is, and United Airlines will bear the great embarrassment of employing this imbecile. We have every reason to believe that this approach will succeed in getting Miles Morgan fired. Miles Morgan can crawl back in the cave he came from and keep his job, or he can see how he manages to pay the bills by stealing other people’s images, and selling them for pennies on microstock sites. We want to emphasize that this is not a joke. Should Miles Morgan ignore us and hope that all this just goes away, there will be hell to pay. Marc Adamus LIES 2.0 and Loserphotographers.com awaits proof that Miles Morgan knows when he’s been caught, and is willing to back down and do the right thing.

14 comments:

  1. WOW SWEET! I CANT WAIT TO SEE THIS PUNK GO DOWN.

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  2. Do admit, you are a highly motivated individual. Now if only you could be convinced to use your powers for good instead of evil... then you might really be able to accomplish something significant.

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  3. I HAVE TO GIVE MILES MORGAN SOME CREDIT, AT LEAST THIS SHOT IS UNIQUE AND NOT A STOLEN COMPOSITION. HOWEVER, THE THOUGHT THAT I AM ON A FLIGHT AND THE GUY FLYING THE PLANE IS TAKING HIS LATEST PHOTOSHOP PHOTO IS PRETTY SCARY. HAS UNITED AIRLINES SEEN THIS????????????????????????????

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mm767cap/3635632381/

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  4. "there will be hell to pay"

    OMG what a riot.

    This is one of the funniest sites I have ever seen. No one reads your crap or cares who you are or what you say or do. There are almost no responses on this entire site except the ones you wrote to agree with yourself, and the others are only by a couple people (probably nobodies too). You are a nobody, always have been always will and once your identity is revealed...

    Well, HELL might be a good word for what your life will become.

    Keep up the humor!

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  5. ITS BEEN MORE THAN 10 DAYS...TELL US, TELL US, HAS THIS LOSER COMPLIED?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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  6. How come when i look for pics on his flickr stream it says none available? Whats up is he getting scared?

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  7. Hi:

    I’m Kim a reporter with NBC news in Dallas. We are putting together a story about copyright issues that seem to be running rampant on the internet. Looking for a few more details here so might be able to use in a story. Most of our contributors on this story are staying anonymous so that is not an issue.

    You can learn more about here and there is an email contact if interested:
    www.nbcnewsdesk.com/kim-fischer.htm

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  8. You (the anonymous person behind this blog) must have some really bad karma... So much hate on other people for no reason other than jealousy, and you can't even tell people who you are... Pathetic.

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  9. So sad that you have chosen to be this mean and cruel. I wonder if you got your jealous head out of your huge ass it would make this world a better place. I am sure you don't know what end is up when it comes to a camera. It is obvious you don't know what end is up when it comes to photography. You can't copy right a place on the planet.

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  10. I am amazed that you succeeded in getting Miles Morgan to take down his Flickr images. The thing is Miles is one of the nicest photographers I have ever met. I met him in Glacier National Park where he had been out every morning by 5 AM making photos. I have no idea how you are trying to base your claims that he stole photos. I don't know him well but you couldn't have tagged a person more wrongly. Now the question is do you have the balls to give your name? You attack someone without proof and spend all day going off on this rant. You should know your attacking a very nice and genuine person and without cause. A thousand photographers go to the same spots and frame the same photos. There certainly is nothing wrong with that. Not sure what your accusing beyond this because you don't offer anything. I'm very sad to see that a nut job such as yourself has managed to get inside the head of a very nice person. You should know Miles has a large network of photographers who are proud to call him a friend. It's easy to know you are wrong about him. This Marc Adamus I have no idea about. But I hope for your sake that you didn't get him wrong as well. I'd like to see if you have the courage to keep this comment on your blog. Let's see what kind of balls your really made of. It's likely you don't know anything about Miles and rather your just a nut job trying to feel like you have some power in life when in reality your just a total waste of energy and time. Or offer up the proof for real and quit wasting this negative time.

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  11. You (the writer of this blog) are an awful person. You are destroying the lives and reputations of honest, talented individuals. You are causing needless grief and suffering. You think that you are doing good, but you are not. You have used a difference in photographic philosophy to justify libel. You have threatened good people. In the end, the law is ultimately on your side with this one. I think you should seriously re-examine yourself and what you are doing to other people.

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  12. Seriously, seek mental help. You are a total psychopath who should not be loose in public.

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  13. Seriously, seek mental help!

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  14. You think Marc Adamus lies because he....photoshops his images? Who cares?? Many photogs process their photos to create similar color and contrast schemes. I'm not a fan of his "look", but what he does to his photos is part of his own artistic vision, not mine.
    Are you even a photographer or just a cry baby wannabe?

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