I've talked with some old-timers in the fly business when at the shows, in
private. When the conversation gets around to copying others' work, I'm
amazed at how many FAMOUS tiers got their start by robbing others or the
'general store' of knowledge to get their start in notariety. You wouldn't
believe the names.
I'll give one example on my part. Some guy posted a photo of a tiger-mouse
that he tied on Mark Romero's site. It was the photo copied from Vladimere
Markov's site, and the tiger-mouse was the one I gave to Mary Thompkins in
Idaho falls, which she gave to Vlad when he made that FFF conclave there.
This guy claimed it as his own pattern. Mark banned him from the site.
People just don't believe in 'sin' anymore, nor in ethics, values, scruples,
fairness, and on & on.
I like giving others credit for their accomplishments and their influence in
anything I've done.
I met Bill Howe at the San Mateo ISE Show in 1996, just before he 'retired'
from tying and went 'Harleying', I think. But he taught me the secrets of
his large 'Profile Flies' for saltwater streamers, basically a very flat
deceiver that stripped very fast. I built on this knowledge and developed my
very successful streamers, especially the Green Machine and the Big Blue. A
normal giant streamer is like trying to drag a mop through the water, both
for the strip and hauling it out for the back-cast. A flat profile fly
strips easily and I can easily haul out a fly twice the length of a normal
one if it is flat and thin, yet in profile, it looks like a whole fish to
the gamefish.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Brenner" <peggy.bren...@comcast.net>
To: <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Copyright mistake...
To remedy this situation I'm taking a lesson in putting a watermark on all
my photos this Saturday.
Several years ago I went to Conclave in Colorado with someone who
proceeded to use all pictures of the fish I caught on their blog as their
own, with no credit to me as the catcher of the beautiful browns.
And take a couple of patterns of my original variation and call it their
own, end of friendship. End of my Credit card for travels.
I hate folks who have to 'borrow' to make themselves look better, instead
of spending the time to make themselves better.And I know I'm not the only
one out there with this 'problem'
Peggy
On 2/23/2011 11:39 AM, Niclas Runarsson wrote:
If you don't ask, you have to be ready for surprises...
A guy was using two of my hoppers in his wingcutter description on eBay.
But he didn't download the pictures on his computer for uploading
himself. Instead he pointed straight to them in HTML code... so the
pictures are still on my domain. I made copies with new names and
pointed my own page to them... and then I started up Photoshop. ;o)
Guess which ones:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220675947691&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp4634.m570.l1313%26_nkw%3D220675947691%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220675947691&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp4634.m570.l1313%26_nkw%3D220675947691%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1>
/Nick
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Peggy Brenner
http://pbandj.us/SixSistersFlybox/
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