A photo of Goh Chui Ling that was taken by Lim Yong Teck of Red Sports was uploaded onto lowkayhwa.com without our permission.
Thursday, May 21, 2015 — A photo of athlete Goh Chui Ling that was taken by Lim Yong Teck of Red Sports was used without our permission on a website, lowkayhwa.com. The photo was used in an article on that website with the headline “13 EYE CANDIES (SIC) TO LOOK OUT FOR AT THE 28TH SEA GAMES”. The author was listed as Jun Kai. It was published on that website on May 19, 2015.
The photo was taken without our permission. Even if asked, we would not have given permission.
The photo was part of an editorial about Goh Chui Ling that was first posted on Red Sports.
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore says the law requires that anyone needs to “contact the copyright owners directly for consent. This is needed because copyright in images include the right to make copies and to communicate them, such as when you upload them onto your website/blog. Doing so without the copyright owner’s permission will infringe his exclusive rights”.
We do not allow our photos to be used anywhere else to protect both our photographers’ rights, as well as the right of the subject not to have his or her image used in a way that they do not appreciate.
Please do not infringe on the intellectual property of our photographers.
Please do not steal our photos.
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