When you have half a million followers, and spend your days travelling the world and taking amazing photos for your blog, there’s not much you can imagine going wrong.
Except when you find that someone has been following your every move, and recreating your photographs down to every last detail.
When Australian Instagram star Lauren Bullen, known as Gypsea Lust, says she discovered a 'fan' was doing exactly that, she was "truly shocked" and "creeped out".
"At first I thought it was all photoshopped & had to take screen shots to compare the two," she wrote on a post on her website.
Top Comments
Whatever happened to 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery'?
Copyright infringement law became a thing!
I take people's photos and put them on my Pinterest - am I breaking the law?
Only if you profit from them, or make your own versions and claim the original idea as yours. Doesn't Pinterest link it back to the original anyway? If not, consider putting a small mention to the author there, so they get something out of it. They need to make a living too, and deserve recognition for their art!
I hope she reported this to Instagram. I wonder if this woman is only copying her shots, or also other users'? Is she just incapable of coming up with ideas herself, or is she stalking in a weird, roundabout way?