Using pictures without permisson

[PhilinYuma]

Peter, I'm glad that someone else on this forum understands from a calm and rational perspective. I suppose I am very emotional about the subject matters at hand, and my lack of maturity (as pointed out by others) is showing...

And the only time that I haven't minded my work being passed off for another's is when I've been contracted and *paid* to do it .

Yes that's a good apologetic for citing the source of yr pix, Peter, and I can't see anyone arguing with it. I do have a question, though, about you decision not to provide the source of the musical backgrounds to yr videos. I just looked at the assassin bug one that is backed by "Stick out your can, Here comes the garbage man." I guess that the copyright to that song would be held by the Fleischer estate, it was definitely copyrighted in 1931 in the Betty Boop cartoon of that name.

Now what happens if, a few years from now, some company buys up the rights on those movies and sues you for $9,000 (tier somewhat overvalued the Euro against the dollar!)? Would you pay? Would you fight it? It seems that the situation is very similar to that of tier's sports club.

 

[Orin]

Also, if we follow your shaky logic, then I guess that native Americans should be called Asians!

You did not understand the post. It had nothing to do with your family.

If by your logic a generation to a few removed is the same as thousands of years and uncertain lineage then shaky logic is a standard you should aspire to.

 

[PhilinYuma]

You did not understand the post. It had nothing to do with your family.If by your logic a generation to a few removed is the same as thousands of years and uncertain lineage then shaky logic is a standard you should aspire to.

Let me make it really easy for you Orin. I am a European with a European passport. I can vote in Europe. I can travel without a visa. You, regardless of your ancestry are not European, you do not have a European passport. You cannot vote in Europe. In Europe, you would be what kamakiri called tier, a foreigner. I had no trouble in understanding what you said. but I don't understand why you would make such an obvious and irrelevant point in reply to my original post.

 

[Peter Clausen]

The assassin video lists source credits for the public domain audio file at the end when the screen goes blue.

My plan, Phil, is to pay any legal fees as required by the court and then use the same lawyer they used to sue me and subsequently sue everybody that is using my photos. I might make as much money on balance, once it's all said and done, as the lawyer! I just lack the motivation to get really angry about it. I suspect a lawsuit against me for doing what so many other people are doing to me would be sufficiently motivating. You gotta love Phil!

 

[PhilinYuma]

The assassin video lists source credits for the public domain audio file at the end when the screen goes blue.My plan, Phil, is to pay any legal fees as required by the court and then use the same lawyer they used to sue me and subsequently sue everybody that is using my photos. I might make as much money on balance, once it's all said and done, as the lawyer! I just lack the motivation to get really angry about it. I suspect a lawsuit against me for doing what so many other people are doing to me would be sufficiently motivating. You gotta love Phil!

Sounds like a plan!

 

[Orin]

Let me make it really easy. ... obvious and irrelevant point in reply to my original post.

It was not a post directed at you. I don't care if you can vote in Europe. I didn't say I was European.

You can vote for the whole European continent?

 

[PhilinYuma]

It was not a post directed at you. I don't care if you can vote in Europe. I didn't say I was European. You can vote for the whole European continent?

I probably got the idea that the original post was directed at me because it quoted part of one of my posts! See how easily I become confused? And no, you didn't say that you were European, though your last name doesn't sound much like any Asian names I know. Sorry if I misinterpreted yr ethnicity!

And yep, I can vote for the regional MP to the European Union Parliament much as we can vote for a state senator to the U.S. Senate here. In fact, the Union subsumes the Scandinavian countries as well as almost all of the countries in Europe, though a few countries like Turkey are still out in the cold. A lot different from 50 yrs ago, eh?

 

[Orin]

See how easily I become confused?

Yes.

 

[kamakiri]

Photography you know takes work (you are a wedding photog. right?) so having someone blatantly use your image you spent maybe hours working on gives you every reason to be pissed off. Most think of them as nothing more than simple pictures, little do they know about the expensive equipment and time needed to get those results. I hear ya Kamakiri!

Well, I'm a *sometimes* wedding photographer! And that's one of the industries that get hit pretty frequently by copyright infringement. It's usually from photos that are pulled right from another wedding photographer's site and presented as their own.

 

[yeatzee]

ah I see....

Man would I be mad if I saw someone using my wedding shots. I can't even imagine all the pressure and PP work they take!