Thanks
Justyn
Justyn Miller Intense Herpetoculture www.IntenseHerp.com
Here's the reply I got from the folks that host the reptilecity.com web site. I'll send him a list of the pictures I recognize later. But if you have one that this applies to you may want to contact him directly to make it even more clear that this is not a good thing to do.
greg
Dear Mr. Watkins-Colwell,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The owner of the reptilecity.econgo.com site created his site and may, without our direct knowledge, have copied some images from another source. Our service for merchants, such as this client, is "build-it-yourself".
If you can forward a specific list of these pictures on the site, I can forward them to the site owner for action. If you know the owner of the pics however, maybe you could forward contact info so that our client can license them.
Also, you mentioned a mail-link from their site to our sales director ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I looked for that and didn't find it. Can you please reply with the location of that link?
Thanks for your help,
Don Nordloff Program Manager www.Entrabase.com
Don,
Please take care of this Dude. Before I fist fight him!
Rich!
>
>Several of the photos (if not all) featured at a web site hosted by you
>are in violation of copyright.
>
>I noticed specifically 4 cases where I personally know who took the
>original photo and the webmaster of the offending site did not credit
>them. In fact, the webmaster removed copyright designation from the
>photos via cropping or other photoshop tricks.
>
>Several of the photos of geckos at reptilecity's web page were taken
>directly from the photo section of the Global Gecko Association without
>acknowledgement or permission. It is these photos that I know had their
>copyright statements removed. Removal of such a statement clearly
>indicates to me that the webmaster of that site KNEW that they were
>violating the law, or at least didn't want to bother to try and find all
>the copyright holders to get permission.
>
>Do you need the specific image names as listed on the reptilecity web page?
>
>Greg
>******************************************************
>* Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell *
>* Herpetology and Ichthyology *
>* Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History *
>* 170 Whitney Avenue, P. O. Box 208118 *
>* New Haven, CT 06520-8118 *
>* Phone: 203/432-3791 *
>* FAX: 203/432-2874 *
>* http://www.peabody.yale.edu *
>******************************************************
****************************************************** * Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell * * Herpetology and Ichthyology * * Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History * * 170 Whitney Avenue, P. O. Box 208118 * * New Haven, CT 06520-8118 * * Phone: 203/432-3791 * * FAX: 203/432-2874 * * http://www.peabody.yale.edu * ******************************************************
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