Re: [Leica] copyright violation

["Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@direcway.com>]

Hello friends:

Just returned from Washington, D.C. (where I was doing some lobbying on the
Hill) to 262 waiting emails. This thread is exactly why I have never posted
an image on the LUG. My guess is that some of you have even asked
yourselves, does this Rosner guy ever use his Leica or is he just a
wordsmith?

As a lawyer, I know that there are some legal "rights" that are simply too
difficult or too expensive to vindicate formally. This is also why some
clients get very angry at lawyers: "Why should I have to pay so much to get
that dirty so-and-so to do what the law says he should?"

In today's world I suppose that it is next to impossible for a professional
photographer not to have a website. My guess is that some day, perhaps soon,
the techie geniuses will devise an copyright protection program that will
burn a hole (read: corrupt a program or implant a virus) in the computer of
anyone downloading and illegally using a copyrighted document - photograph
or poem or article or whatever. I hope so.

Seth

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From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] copyright violation


> bdcolen responded:   -- copyright violation
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> > Nothing on the net is safe.<<<<<
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> Hi B.D.,
> And this has been one of my fears for years about posting photographs to a
> web site or openly on line at any time.
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> No matter what anyone writes about copyright infringement etc and all the
> other threats if somebody uses the shot ..... it happens every day and
will
> continue to happen .........  as we have absolutely no idea or way of
> knowing who's down loading our photography!
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> Any of you folks posting for PAW might as well kiss the image good bye or
> figure everytime you post one that's a cool photograph there are a bunch
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> SOB'S out there, who if they like it, basically... "STEAL" it right off
the
> PAW site! :-(
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> And unless you see it used, you have no idea it's been stolen. Hell in
some
> cases someone could be making a pile of money from one of your pictures,
> mean while you think you've posted a couple of neat photographs while some
> son of bitch has stolen it and selling it all over the place.
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> And if it's in another country kiss it goodbye unless you have more money
> than you know what to do with and try to legally fight it through foreign
> courts.
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> I'm sure there are ways to circumvent theft with some kind of software,
> however, there'll be someone who'll figure out how to get around it and
> steal your stuff anyway.
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> So quite frankly I think each of us must take our own responsibility for
> posting photographs to the internet. If you're not prepared to have it
> stolen, don't post!
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