Re: [Gecko] Photo Piracy, Atten: all photo submitters...

[Leann Christenson]

E-mail the person.  Inform them that they are using your copyrighted photos without permission.  Tell them if they do not remove them within 24 hours you will inform their web-hosting company of the infraction.  Web host companies do not want to be in the middle of these disputes, can be named as party to the infringement, and will and should pull the whole website.    I've done this on an ongoing rate since putting up www.daygecko.com  People are constantly using our pictures without permission and we track them down, one by one, and do not hesitate to go the full course.   Leann ----- Original Message ----- From: Corey Sawyer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Gecko] Photo Piracy, Atten: all photo submitters... I have had the same problem in the past. Normally its some 10 year old that just has not learned to ask permission first. Then there is the jerk that wants to profit off selling animals with your pictures.   Thank You, Corey Sawyer Superior Reptiles, Owner 206-240-5457 http://www.SuperiorReptiles.com http://www.GotReptiles.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Johnston To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [Gecko] Photo Piracy, Atten: all photo submitters... Who is this jerk? He's got a couple of my klemmeri pics with the copyright notices cropped off, too. Chris wrote: photo galleries: http://community.webshots.com/user/reptij personal site: http://www.geocities.com/reptij/ Look in the various galleries.  5 of my photos (3 leopard geckos, 1 tokay, and 1 banded gecko) have been added to this persons gallery w/o my knowledge of them doing so.  To further add insult to injury they had the balls to crop off my "� Chris Newsom" text on my photos.  There were other GGA photo contributors' photos who I recognized.  Some by Tony Gamble or Gregory Watkins-Colwell, just to name a couple.  I don't know what can be done, but I have already type up a message to his guest book on the webshots account. Chris -- Doug Johnston http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scubadug