Marc Adamus: A craven coward who is so obsessed with selling workshops & photo tours that he won’t protect his images’ copyright.

Marc Adamus: A craven coward

 

 

So Marc Adamus has REFUSED to protect his copyright, as evidenced by his refusal to accept the Marc Adamus proposal. Let this serve as notice of this coward’s lack of ethics, his willful deceitfulness, his lack of concern for the photography industry, and his vast selfishness:

1. Marc Adamus’ cowardice:
Marc Adamus is afraid that if he enforces his copyright, his workshop sales will drop dramatically. Maybe this is true, and maybe it isn’t. If it is, it goes to show that these pathetic pieces of shit who take Marc Adamus photo tours are inartistic thieves who think that stealing images/compositions and posting them on Flickr/photo.net/photosig/whatever makes them “artists”. Those are not the sort of people any honest man would want to deal with. Copyright violation is theft, period. People have been sued in court for sharing as few as a dozen copyrighted songs. Stealing someone else’s image, especially when done to mimic the original as closely as possible (like piece of shit Floris van Breugel or his loser buddy Steve Sieren is fond of doing) is a far worse offense. These pieces of human refuse should be in court, sued for millions of dollars. Then they will see how much of an “artist” they can be by stealing compositions.

2. Marc Adamus’ lack of ethics
As an extension of his unwillingness to protect his copyright, Marc Adamus condones the theft of other photographers’ images. Because many of these losers fervently believe that Marc Adamus is the finest photographer alive and to ever live, they reason that if Marc allows them to steal his images, it’s more than OK to steal anyone else’s images, too. These losers have created a fantasy in which they claim they’re not violating copyright. This is sheer lunacy and completely unsupported by any case law or reading of US Copyright law. Check Loserphotographers.com blog for a guide on protecting images soon. 

3. Marc Adamus’ willful deceitfulness.
Marc Adamus fraudulently claims that his style is immediately recognizable. This is completely untrue, considering how many Marc Adamus copying turkeys (Floris van Breugel, Steve Sieren, Kevin Mcneal, Adrian Klein, Zach Schnepf, etc) have nearly exact copies of Marc Adamus images. Also, if Marc were to license any image exclusively to a client, that client would be defrauded as a result of all the Marc Adamus copies floating around out there.

4. Marc Adamus’ lack of concern for the photography industry.
For someone who has often claimed to be a full-time professional photographer (also a false claim, but we digress), Marc has shown no concern for the industry whatsoever. Industry observers have noted that the first victim of bogus photographic practices is the practitioner himself. After that, the rest of the industry suffers too. And so it is with Marc. With his failure to protect copyright equaling a support of image theft, Marc first destroys his own future licensing abilities, and then the licensing futures of other photographers whose images are stolen by Marc Adamus loving idiots. With the right combination of factors coming together in a synergistic fashion, one man can be the cause of enormous damage to an industry. And Marc just doesn’t care. The workshop/ photo tour money is so important to him, the photo.net slobbering is so valuable, that he doesn’t care what the cost is to other photographers. 

5. Marc Adamus is extraordinarily selfish
Marc Adamus only cares about his goal of Being Famous. To hell with anything else! Almost single-handedly, Marc Adamus has started what has become a campaign of de-facto financial terrorism that has dealt millions in damages to the professional photography industry. And who has benefitted? No one. THUGS & pieces of shit like Floris van Breugel, Ryan Dyar, or Miles Morgan have day jobs or rich parents. They don’t care about fair trade or charging a sustainable price for the images they create, ignoring, for the moment, the fact that most of the images in their portfolios are illegally stolen from other photographers. They are willing to give this images way for nothing in exchange for delusional promises of fame or being recognized as an “artist”. Marc Adamus encourages all this with his silence and his condoning of image theft, creation of bullshit to pump up losers, and lying to enhance the pathetic bios of these losers. 

Marc Adamus is a cancer at the heart of the photography industry. Until the entire public knows about, and ridicules this attention whore, thousands of jobs are at stake and an entire industry teeters on the brink. He must be exposed. Support fair trade photography. Avoid Marc Adamus, Flickr, and anywhere these imbeciles spread their filth.