My name is Richard Burke. My pictures are on display on this site without my consent in violation of the International Copyright Act. I would like to know how these images were obtained and who is responsible for the creation and management of this siite. Please contact me at Imageryphotonet@gmail.com

Richard,

I truly apologize. I just sent you an a direct email. Please feel free to email me back or call. Please note that all of these pictures were available online, and we have attributed you as the owner/source. However, I do agree that we missed the direct authorization from you in the scramble to put this archive quickly together after the announcement of the demolition. Per your request, they are being removed. Please feel free to email be back (or directly call me).

Richard,

All of your photos, including the artifact featuring your book, "Zombie Nights" with the link to Amazon was removed from the archive per your request. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Mr. Burke,
As a fellow professor—though I was full and not adjunct—it disheartens me to see such an attack here when this matter could have been handled privately. Especially since the owner of this site took extra measures to ensure you were credited and provided links for the public to visit your site, purchase your photos, and your books.  Notably, this site is an archive—a FREE source of information dedicated to keeping the mall and its history alive, created by a fan, for the fans. The owner of this site nor any of his admins collect any money and never put forth, in any capacity, that they were collecting any monies, especially in regards to photographs or any other historical documents shown. While copyright is a serious matter, and you certainly are entitled to your intellectual property, I would like to bring to your attention the hundreds of people sharing your photographs across the web and social media platforms, and, while this is speculation at best, I have a suspicion not all, if any, have your permission to share them. Also, your photos are widely accessible through a simple google search—see screenshot below and widely available on Facebook—see attached link. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/50197514...tid=wwXIfr

Again, while copyright is your right, your public response was nothing more than mean-spirited and malicious in intent, while it also detracts from the entire purpose of this archive. Do Better.

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Richard, I understand wanting to protect your work and I respect that. But honestly, if I were in your position, I would feel honored if someone found my work online, appreciated it enough to include it in a fan archive, and still took the time to properly credit me for it.

To me, seeing something I created being used to help preserve the history of something I care about would be a compliment, especially when my name and work were clearly credited.

I completely understand wanting permission, and that is your right as the creator. I just think there is a big difference between someone stealing your work and someone sharing it with proper credit because they genuinely appreciate it. Personally, I would be happy to see my work helping a community preserve memories and history.

This was not an attack and such a comment is hyperbolic. There was no way to handle this privately and I still do not know how the images got posted here to begin with. There is a difference between the low quality screenshots you see on google and the high resolution images posted here. These images are part of a book and have been licensed for film, TV , DVD and book projects. I have a responsibility to protect the copyright of my clients. As a photographer this is not the first time I have had my work stolen although this is different since it is an archive I appreciate the interest and yes, the credit given on the photos was the right thing to do.As a content creator I have the right and responsibility to protect my intellectual property. I will not respond to any further comments.

Mr. Burke,
I cannot be any more clear than this:

First, I know you can contact the owner of this site privately so I stand by my original statement that you did not need to take this public. 

Admins, could you please let the community know if Mr. Burke reached out privately through this site?  

Second, the link I posted above is a direct link to high resolution photographs of your work that were posted on Facebook, and, while they are not as high resolution as a raw file—which I cannot be certain existed in the late 70’s since digital platforms didn’t exist until the 90’s—whoever posted them to Facebook had high resolution images so perhaps you should contact that person directly—and yes, their name is visible on that post. 

The screenshot I provided was an example of how easy it is to access your photos through a simple Google search not an example of a photo that was shown on this site.  Furthermore, there are many websites out there that have your images on them and haven’t credited you at all. 

I stand by everything I said in the original post. 

Good day.

Mr. Burke did reach out privately.  Per Mr. Burke's request, the images were immediately removed from the site along with the links to his prints and book. 

@KL - The Facebook Link you shared in your original post was the source of the high resolution images. We can confirm from what you described there were other sourced locations on social media and fan forums that display his images, along with many other DOTD production still images from other individuals.  

Given all appropriate actions have been taken with source information provided, we are closing out this thread.