Agreed.
Tom C.
From: DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: A weird little story of Copyright Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:42:08 +0200 True, it was pure luck that I discovered it. That is why have reacted, when it is discover the reactions should be sufficiently hard to discourage others from doing the same. DagT Den 13. jul. 2006 kl. 18.27 skrev Tom C: > That being said... it's rather absurd to think that anyone can do > that with anyone's work at any time and no harm is done, except > when the owner of the original image accidentally finds out! > > Tom C. > > >> From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> To: pdml@pdml.net >> Subject: RE: A weird little story of Copyright >> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:22:05 -0600 >> >> He may not have been a very good painter but he's good enough to >> make it obvious that it's a copy of your work. I hope you at >> least get some degree of compensation without too much acrimony. >> For him to offer to sell YOU a painting he made after >> surrepticiously using your picture as the basis, is plain backwards. >> >> >> Tom C. >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> From: DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >>> Subject: A weird little story of Copyright >>> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:08:03 +0200 >>> >>> 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 >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> > > >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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