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From: "Jens Bladt" Subject: RE: Copyright
Thanks William, I guess what you say makes a lot of sence.
The reason I'm asking is that I just found one of my images on a folk
music
band's web site. It's kinda OK, but it made me wonder how many of my
images
is illegally being used by others.
You could ask them to remove the image, if it is, in fact, resident on their
site, if yoey are deep linking the image from your website, about all you
can do is change the image's filename, and wait for them to update their
link.
When I was running the PUG, I had to deal with some image bank lifting
images from the gallery. Their claim was that they were doing nothing wrong,
since what they were doing was not expressly prohibited by the law of their
particular state, my claim was that they were reproducing images without
permission of the creator (the thumbnail links they were using to the PUG
images).
Anyway, I had to do a bit of digging, and discovered the image bank was
owned by an American university, so I sent the Dean a kind email asking them
to respect the intellectual property of others, as they would ask me to
repect the intellectual property to be found on his university's website.
I think they stopped, but I could be mistaken.
William Robb
