I hope you win. I remember when you posted your picture, which is wonderful.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of DagT > Sent: 13 July 2006 17:08 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: A weird little story of Copyright > > Just to keep your minds off politics .-) > > During my holiday I was reading and listening to music but > had the TV > on (and sound off), just in case there was a weather forecast. > Suddenly something known caught my attention on the TV. In a > program > about some opera seminar in western Norway a singer was standing in > front of a painting, and the painting was identical to one of my > photographs. > > After some detective work, and help from the Norwegian community at > www.foto.no, I found the painter, and he admitted that he had > downloaded my picture and used it, but he refused to take the > picture > down and claimed that he was a not a very good painter and therefore > his painting was not a copy of my picture. He said that he would > sell it if someone wanted it and that I could by it if I wanted to. > > Now the story has been twice in the local radio station and will be > in the local newspaper tomorrow. But since I live in a > different part > of the country I have only seen the references on Internet. One of > the leading professors in Copyright issues in Norway has stated that > the painting is illegal, and things seem to be going my way, but it > has been a busy week... > > here´s a link with where you can see the pictures: > http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.708983 > > DagT > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
