So it looks like Spector Creative's channel is shutting down. Can't say I'm upset about him leaving but at the same time the whole situation behind the shutdown is interesting. Trying to leave all the drama out of it here's what happened, curious as to what /toy/ thinks about this, aside from the drama nonsense.

So Spector took some photos from a toy review website, The Figure In Question" and used several dozen photos in his various videos throughout the years. The photos were all watermarked but Spector went out of his way to obstruct and remove them. The photographer of the photos found out about this, researched how many of his photos that Spector used, and proceeded to file a bunch of copyright claims (30 in total, less than half of the total videos that featured his work) on YouTube. To make a long story short, once Spector reached out to the photographer saying he would be willing to remove all the photos in question, so the photographer recanted the strikes, assuming Spector would act in good faith, even going on to say he was fine with Spector continuing to feature his work, as long as he received credit in the form of a link to his website in the description or something as trivial as that. He would even let Spector use the existing stuff if he just added a link in a pinned comment or something like that. Anyway, once the strikes werr removed, Spector ended up not keeping his word and demanded copyright proof and what not from the photographer. Eventually the photographer ended up filing a claim with the copyright office leading to Spector voluntarily shutting down his channel.

Setting the drama aside, what do you guys think about this? If you took toy photography in a semi professional manner, at least enough to watermark your photos that you post on your own website, would you file claims against someone using your work without your permission?