> Now, I don't really have a problem with people using my scans, provided > they a) ask me before they do and b) make the bidders aware the image > does not show the actual item. The latter because most of my images are > heavily retouched to give perfect appearances - it would severely > mislead buyers about the condition of the actual box sold.
I'm about the same way. Got no problem with someone using a description if they at least mention it came from my site. However I don't like my pics being used at all. When people see a picture, they tend to assume that's what's being auctioned, and sometimes neglect to even read the text. I've seen people show images of a shrinkwrapped game when selling an open one, and of course you get the "here's what the box looks like even though I'm only selling a loose disk" variety. > Young lady relisted her items with the small addition "item relisted due > to picture copyright issues" and they unfortunately then went unsold. > The previous bidders did not feel inclined to bid again. You got off easy. One of my auction thieves' relist declared, "This auction has been censored by some anonymous coward." B-) It didn't sell either. > Lesson to learn: Ebay is *not* powerless and what holds true for > pictures is also true for text. Both fall under copyright law if they > are your original work. eBay is actually very responsive to incidents like this. In all the cases I've reported they've taken the offending auctions down within a day. > To prevent future incidents like this I now stamped most of my images > with my URL and because of the growing number of people remote linking > my images I started to block hits on them via .htaccess, when the > referring URL does not come from my domain. Right now I've got a query that pulls part of my vault page text, then searches eBay for the exact text. It's a random sample, but as I run it several times a week, it usually catches plagiarists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
