Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<html> Send email to Vic Perlman (ASMP Counsel) and ask this question. Better yet, call him on the phone. I have, numerous times. He is really nice and will advise you as to how to solve the problem.<br> <br> Jim<br> <br> At 11:32 PM 12/13/98 -0500, you wrote: <br> <blockquote type=3Dcite cite>Dear LUGnuts:<br> <br> I have already posted this question on PhotoPro and they are debating it furiously.=A0 I would love to have your opinion also.=A0 What can or should = I do?<br> <br> Someone alerted me that my web site was linked to something called Boylinks at:<br> <br> <font color=3D"#0000FF"><u><a= href=3D"http://www.fpc.net/boylinks/picture.html"= eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.fpc.net/boylinks/picture.html</a></font></u><= font color=3D"#000000"> <br> <br> I sent them an e-mail and asked them to remove the link. They sent the= following reply:<br> <br> Dear Tina Manley,<br> Boylinks provides links to sites that are already in the public domain and= <br> provide information (including images) of boys. For this reason your site= <br> qualified for inclusion.<br> I must point out that while your site remains in the public domain I am <br> unable to consider removing this link.<br> yours sincerely,<br> Blinker<br> <br> <br> While my photographs on the site are copyrighted, the entire website is not.= What are my rights? Can they do this?<br> <br> Thanks -<br> <br> Tina<br> <br> PhotoPro seems about evenly divided between "free speech"(they can= say whatever they want) and "libel"(they can't say anything about= you that you don't want them to).=A0 Since the site doesn't actually copy= my photos or the web site but only points to it, it isn't really a= copyright issue; however, I don't want my site linked to= "Boylinks"!=A0 What should I do?<br> <br> Thanks for your help -<br> <br> Tina<br> <br> <br> Tina Manley, ASMP<br> <br> <a href=3D"http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html"= eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html</a><br> <a href=3D"http://members.tripod.com/~Tina_Manley/index.html"= eudora=3D"autourl">http://members.tripod.com/~Tina_Manley/index.html</a>= </blockquote><br> </font></html>