Tom, Pentax Canada, like Pentax USA, produce nothing. They import and re-sell cameras atincreasingly poorer margins.
If you had read the e-mails, you'd know why they canned it. They were disgusting. They were looking for goodwill and attempting to engage their customer base in a friendly, grassroots way, and for their troubles they were called things that would make Harvey Keitel blush. Why you assume they intended to steal people's images or do something different from what they said because there wasn't a legalese paragraph at the end of the message is beyond me. As I said, this is on my shoulders -- my bad advice led them here. Please stop beating me up over this. -Aaron -----Original Message----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: re: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix Date: Tue Feb 7, 2006 11:36 am Size: 2K To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Godfrey, I stated in my original post, that I had lost the original message. After reading your copy of it, I find that I insinuated nothing at all. The words "more trouble than it is worth" are hardly kind words for a business to use in any context when their customers are involved. Additionally I find it odd to the extreme that a company whose business is producing and selling products that allow people to engage in photography would have *any* trouble in having a coherent policy and procedure regarding copyrights of submitted photo. Likely any inquiries and perceived negativity would have been minimized if complete information was presented up front. Tom C. >From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net >To: PDML <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> >Subject: re: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix >Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:47:35 -0800 > >Rather than present an insinuation about Pentax Canada's business >practices by posting interpretations of the note, here is the text of the >message sent to me on Saturday: > >Begin forwarded message: > >>From: Marco Veltri >>Date: February 3, 2006 6:20:40 AM PST >>Subject: RE: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix >> >> >> Hello, >> Due to the negative response on the forums and all the questions >>people >>kept asking about copyright the powers that be have decided that we will >>use >>other sources to find images. We received great images but due to the >>problems it has been decided that it is more trouble that it is worth. >>Thank >>you to all the people who sent in images. There were about 10 people who >>sent in images and I will be contacting them individually with this >>message. >> >>Again, thanks to all who sent in images. >> > >Marco was very responsive when I corresponded with him, I submitted a >gallery of 20 images for him to select from and he wrote back to thank me >within an hour. It sounds like his project for the marketing department >foundered due to a perceived negativism expressed in people's responses. > >I'd have cut it short as well. > >Godfrey >
