Yes it was me who wrote that blog entry. And I'm surprised that someone of Inter7 is respondig to this now. When I wrote to Inter7 and to this list some years ago. Noone of Inter7 was interested in that issue. They are _really_ ignorant to still distribute this image in an open source package maintained by them. As I had contact to the original author of this image (Eric Pearle) it is _clear_ that Inter7 has _no_ licence for this picture. Because this image is under exclusive licencing by getty. And getty does not licence this picture for redistribution. If you ask me: Inter7 is knowingly bringing users of qmailadmin in legal difficulties. And they are also ingorant about that. This is really hurting OS.
Regards Dennis Körner --- Netzwerge Hamburg e.K. Wandsbeker Zollstraße 13 22041 Hamburg Tel.: 0 40 - 20 00 35 62 Fax: 0 40 - 20 00 35 61 i...@netzwerge.de www.netzwerge.de Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRA 104698 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Johannes Weberhofer, Weberhofer GmbH [mailto:off...@weberhofer.at] Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Januar 2011 20:49 An: qmailadmin@inter7.com Betreff: Re: [qmailadmin] copyright notice I think, the image should be replaced in the next release; even when the fee could easily be reduced, it would be good to elimiate that problem. It seems, that Getty works systematically; I have found one German case description: http://www.denniskoerner.de/blog/2010/04/19/arger-mit-getty-images-und-den-waldorf-anwalten-wegen-qmailadmin/ (english translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denniskoerner.de%2Fblog%2F2010%2F04%2F19%2Farger-mit-getty-images-und-den-waldorf-anwalten-wegen-qmailadmin%2F ). Best regards Johannes Am 14.01.11 20:02, schrieb Trey Nolen: > > > On 01/14/2011 12:05 PM, Matt Brookings wrote: >> On 01/14/2011 11:57 AM, Dave Steinberg wrote: >>> I'm not sure I'd be comfortable ignoring the unauthorized use notice. >>> I'd be the one getting fined and dealing with the hassle, not inter7. >>> Do you guys have copyright over the image or is it licensed >>> appropriately from the copyright holder? >> >> The guy who remade the templates way back when had ownership of the >> image. Gettyimages has some web bot that goes around looking for >> images they sell. Semi-automated harassment. >> >> If you're concerned about the image, open it up, paste white all over >> it, and be done with it. > > I'd definitely remove the image and/or substitute it with something > else, but the notice that we receive indicates that just removing the > image does not absolve our responsibility to pay the fees. Do you have > any proof of ownership for the image by the creator of the templates? > Do you know who the creator was so that we might could make direct contact? > > > Trey Nolen > > > > > > > -- |--------------------------------- | weberhofer GmbH | Johannes Weberhofer | information technologies | Geschäftsführer | Austria, 1080 Wien, Blindengasse 52/3 | | Firmenbuch: 225566s, Handelsgericht Wien | UID: ATU55277701 | | phone : +43 (0)1 5454421 0 | email: off...@weberhofer.at | fax : +43 (0)1 5454421 19 | web : http://www.weberhofer.at | mobile: +43 (0)699 11998315 | |------------------------------------------------------------->> !DSPAM:4d30bd0632715598312382!
