Hi Nick:

I’m guessing that you are referring to the flytyingforum.com 
<http://flytyingforum.com/> that also has a fly pattern database that patterns 
may be uploaded to?



Neville (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver
BC  Canada




> On Jul 27, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Niclas (Gmail) <n.runars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So, guys - here's one for you...
> 
> Background:
> I'm getting tired of people posting my flies and stating that they are their 
> own. The more flies with different owners showing up in picture searchs makes 
> the ownership of the material on my own website unclear.
> I know what copyright is about and until today I thought it was the same 
> "over there" but on a certain discussion forum where you also can upload 
> patterns to a pattern database I ran into a brick wall. The discussion with 
> the administrator has been ridiculous But as an administrator I'd like to 
> assume that he should have some knowledge about rules and laws... and since 
> he's not bending one inch (and getting more and more rude), it's not that I 
> start to wonder if I'm wrong myself.
> 
> Someone else has used a photo (taken by myself) from my site and used it for 
> uploading a pattern in the forum's pattern database. First he thought I meant 
> that it was my pattern and he wanted to see a patent ID. I explained that the 
> pattern was beside the point and that it was the picture that was the issue. 
> I think I got that through. But he's still wants to see a patent ID to remove 
> it "or stop wasting his time because I'm bringing up shit that noone but I 
> even care about".
> 
> Question:
> Is copyright different in US. Has a US discussion forum more rights than a 
> private person to publish copyrighted pictures?
> 
> /Nick

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