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.
Anyway, you probably know all that already. Which brings us to the Miles Morgan Ultimatum (available here). We gave Miles Morgan 10 days to remove stolen images from Getty microstock and stop selling prints on his website. Predictably, he ignored us. That’s not surprising. When push comes to shove, many of the scum we write about here quietly continue doing whatever they were doing that drew our attention, and hoping that we’ll just go away.
But we promised pain & suffering for Miles Morgan, and we intend to deliver. The main driver behind Miles Morgan’ ability to steal other peoples’ work and throw it away for pennies is his well-paying job. Now, like most assholes, Miles Morgan has no problem drawing 6 figures from his line of work, while doing everything possible to undermine someone else’s line of work. Such is hypocrisy and lack of empathy. Go try telling Miles to start working for, say, $16,000 (about 10% of what he probably earns now) a year. He’ll look at you as if you’re crazy. But he’s got no problem stealing someone else’s images and throwing them away for 10% or less of what they originally cost.
So Miles Morgan needs to lose his cushy job at United Airlines. That will deliver a solid lesson to this scum and piece of shit. It will teach him to respect other peoples’ jobs and careers. With that in mind, the next week will see new websites launched to deal with Miles Morgan and United Airlines. It’s time for the whole public to know about this imbecile.
I can see why you're so pissed. Miles' shot of Weeping Walls makes your photo look like it was taken by an amateur.
ReplyDeleteIs this for real? If so, why don't you link to examples?
ReplyDeleteI see past posts on here but no links to examples. Not even rehosted on imgur or something.
Look, man. Miles has a schtick, but I have a hard time with these accusations. The only dishonest thing I know of is that he says he never took any classes but one day picked up a camera in 2009 and just started shooting. In reality Miles took three years of photography in high school, and I don't know about college. I don't know his motivation for claiming inexperience and I see his Flickr photstream is down but I think we need some proof here that he really did this.
Go ahead and launch a million websites. Like this one it will do absolutely nothing but get you sued and worse. The reason no one responds to your trash is they dont know about you. The very few who do view you as a joke. No one will ever take your hate filled site motivated by jealous mental illness seriously. There is absolutely no credibility anywhere here.
ReplyDeleteI emailed Glenn Tilton at United Airlines, but I instead alerted him to this website and the operation you are running here, and to the fact that the only business United Airlines stands to lose over this matter is the blog owner himself (along the many anonymous commenters in support of the blog that are, in fact, the blog owner himself). I've instead suggested to Mr. Tilton that he reassure Miles that his job is not in jeopardy due to the foolishness of an anonymous internet nutcase.
ReplyDeleteIf you actually had anything worth saying you would back it up with a real name and contact information, instead of hiding behind internet anonymity. Nobody's going to give any credence to the rant and ramble of a nameless lunatic.