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A photographer owns the imagery they shot until they sell it, or give it away. In both instances it's best to make the purchase of imagery a formal transaction with an invoice. Book publishing is 10x more difficult than it was even 5 years ago. Attempting to find a source on a singular, powerful image can be time and financially consuming. A lot of these images are scans out of a book, newspaper or magazine, and as soon as they're applied to the "Net" everyone thinks they're fair game. To an extent they are. Up until you attempt to make money off the image.

I would imagine it would take a bit of work to remove a watermark. Was it possible Ryan that someone scanned the image out of one of your magazine articles?

One more thing. Go on Ebay and type in your favorite car, personality etc... You will find hundreds of images. Many of these sellers have a note to please contact them if you are the owner of the image. What they're doing is taking advantage of that image owner until a cease and desist letter is sent to them. They could have sold that image 5,000 times until you figure out thats whats happening.