More stolen photos by the Tourism Authority of Thailand Sukjai Thailand Facebook Page.

First post of the day for the Tourism Authority of Thailand Sukjai Thailand Facebook page shows two, possibly three, more stolen photos.  The funny part of this is, the Tourism Authority of Thailand credits Google for the photos.

Tourism Authority of Thailand Sukjai Facebook

You can see at the bottom of the post from the Tourism Authority of Thailand that it states – “Photo by google”.

Just goes to show how ignorant the staff at the Tourism Authority of Thailand really are.  Google did not take these photos.  The Tourism Authority of Thailand used Google to search for the photos.

Photo number one comes from- I don’t know but it looks like one of the following with the top cropped to remove the Tourism of Thailand watermark (which makes no sense) – unseentourthailand.com with (top and bottom) copyright watermark from the Tourism Authority of Thailand and it can also be seen at thailandwax.com with the lower watermark removed.  It is also here at 7wondersthailand.com with the lower watermark removed.  So, I am not sure, but it looks like TAT owns this one but didn’t display it with their own watermark.  Also, a government agency cannot copyright a photo unless a third party took it for them.  Anything produced by a Thai Government agency is public domain.

Photo number two comes from this blog – vcharkarn.com

‘Photo number three comes from a forum post at Chomthai.com – you have to scroll down a bit to see it.

Just goes to show once again that the Tourism Authority of Thailand has no idea what they are doing.  I would think that to work for a Thai Government Agency one would have to have a degree, and some knowledge of the Internet, and at least an understanding of copyright law.

But, I guess that is not the case as the Tourism Authority of Thailand continues to steal photos and in this case, incorrectly credits Google for the photos.

This is the extent of knowledge at the Tourism Authority of Thailand.  All one has to know to get a job at TAT is how to search using Google, right click, “save image as”, and then re-post the stolen image on Facebook. Any first grader should be able to handle that.

Regardless of where photo number one came from, photos two and three were definitely stolen by the thieves at the Tourism Authority of Thailand and giving credit incorrectly to Google  gave me a good laugh.

I wonder if the Tourism Authority of Thailand is reading my blog and/or responding the blog being posted on Facebook since they made a feeble attempt at giving credit for the photos.

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