.-) Well, in Europe the settlements from cases like this are very much dependent on the loss the copyright owner has been subject to. I haven´t lost much more than a few days of frustration during my holidays, so it wouldn´t amount to much.
I thought about your "Bad taste" picture and wondered if I should send him a copy of my picture with the same treatment that your picture had, but I decided against it.... DagT Den 14. jul. 2006 kl. 21.53 skrev Jens Bladt: > Interesting story, Dag. So, sue him! And perhps the TV station. Or > at least > get a setlemnet. Theres realy no harm done, but of course the > painter should > pay you, like buying a license. > > > PS: Yet annother relation between phptpgraphy and painting ;-) > > Regards > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af > DagT > Sendt: 13. juli 2006 18:08 > Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Emne: 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 > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/387 - Release Date: > 07/12/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.0/388 - Release Date: > 07/13/2006 > > > -- > 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
