Re: [Leica] copyright violation

[Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>]

bdcolen responded:   -- copyright violation


> Nothing on the net is safe.<<<<<

Hi B.D.,
And this has been one of my fears for years about posting photographs to a
web site or openly on line at any time.

No matter what anyone writes about copyright infringement etc and all the
other threats if somebody uses the shot ..... it happens every day and will
continue to happen .........  as we have absolutely no idea or way of
knowing who's down loading our photography!

Any of you folks posting for PAW might as well kiss the image good bye or
figure everytime you post one that's a cool photograph there are a bunch of
SOB'S out there, who if they like it, basically... "STEAL" it right off the
PAW site! :-(

And unless you see it used, you have no idea it's been stolen. Hell in some
cases someone could be making a pile of money from one of your pictures,
mean while you think you've posted a couple of neat photographs while some
son of bitch has stolen it and selling it all over the place.

And if it's in another country kiss it goodbye unless you have more money
than you know what to do with and try to legally fight it through foreign
courts.

I'm sure there are ways to circumvent theft with some kind of software,
however, there'll be someone who'll figure out how to get around it and
steal your stuff anyway.

So quite frankly I think each of us must take our own responsibility for
posting photographs to the internet. If you're not prepared to have it
stolen, don't post!

ted






















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