RE: Lycos Multimedia and image harvesting?

[Jeff Tsai]

What we should do is pull a Napster on Lycos.com... Rather than all of us approaching Lycos individually, all of should identify just how many of our pieces are present in some form on Lycos, consolidate said list, and then submit an official claim letter to Lycos headquarters. Cheers, Jeff <= wondering if there are any lawyers in PDML...? > -----Original Message----- > From: Stan Halpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Lycos Multimedia and image harvesting? > > > I did a search and they have two of my images. One (from > PUG?) is an early > early macro, maybe my first PUG submission. The other is my collage of > brick-wall shots used to illustrate something or other last year. > > Rather than charging for the use of my images, I think it > more appropriate > to charge them a license fee. Lets see. Assume that they > make X US$ per day > in advertising revenue. (Talking gross here, not net.) Then > assume that Y > individuals download content from their site each day. Then > for each hit on > one of my images I expect 90% X/Y (with the other 10% > remaining with them > as their commision). Does this sound about right? > > Stan - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Visit the PUG at http://pug.komkon.org.