Another alternative if they are linking to your image is to change the image
but keep the same name. See how long it takes them to notice.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Copyright
----- Original Message -----
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
