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Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 1:32PM

wvimages.com Phase 1 complete

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and brought down my business.

I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. This page is a detailed account of the biggest threat to my photography and video operation that I had to battle daily to just barely survive, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem facing all of my colleagues as well.

LINK: wvimages.com: Charleston

Thanks to the spring storm season taking a vacation, I have finally been able to edit and catalog all of my Charleston stock still photography for a new web site I've been planning for about a year now. wvimages.com will have three sections - one each for Charleston WV, another for West Virginia/Appalachia and a third for miscellaneous storm chasing. I finished and launched the Charleston section yesterday.

While I gave prints a token mention, the main focus of the site is rights-managed licensing. I don't expect a whole lot from it, but there is a little demand out there that hopefully will help pay for future storm seasons and maybe some new lenses. It feels good to finally have this done (at least the first part of it).