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Subject: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Sat Jan 17 06:20:00 2009
References: <682608.77240.qm@web55906.mail.re3.yahoo.com>


H. Ball Arche wrote:

>Seth wrote:
>"It is very wrong indeed to take
> someone else's work without permission"
>
>Well, you'd have to explain to me how anything has been taken. Was Lluis's 
>webpage hijacked and moved somewhere? Did someone present his pictures as 
>their own?
>
>It's as if, standing in a public library I told someone 'if you go two rows 
>over and three shelves down you'll find a really great book full of maps of 
>India', or 'drive by 1234 Maple street in Maxwell House New York and you'll 
>see a prime example of Prairie Architecture'.
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>

Then you will trust me and buy my FLWright house at my price ;-)

>Nobody has taken anything - someone has simply made the benefits of their 
>research available. That's just what the Web does.
>
>If you don't want strangers looking at your pictures, DON"T PUT THEM ON THE 
>WEB. Or, if you want to have at least some limited control, post them in a 
>place like the LUG gallery, which Brian has made to be non-searchable.
>
>
>--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
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>>From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
>>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 6:58 AM
>>Sorry to disagree. Strongly. It is very wrong indeed to take
>>someone else's work without permission and, in this
>>case, without even notice to the owner, which Luis is, and
>>use it for one's advantage. The legal term is
>>misappropriation and although it might not be actionable as
>>a practical matter, is it wrong both legally and morally.
>>
>>just my 2c.
>>
>>Seth
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Ball
>>Arche" <h_arche@yahoo.com>
>>To: "Leica Users Group"
>><lug@leica-users.org>
>>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:40 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
>>
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>>>Personally I don't think the seller has done
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>>anything out of line.
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>>>In the last few years whenever I've gone to buy a
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>>new lens I've researched it by looking at galleries that
>>have the lens I'm interested in as a tag. Effectively,
>>when you put that gallery together as being shot with that
>>lens, you created a sort of billboard for it in a very
>>public place.
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>>>I don't think you should expect to be asked for
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>>permission if somebody else wants to make a link to your
>>site, although it would have been nice had he given you a
>>credit line in his ebay listing.
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>>>--- On Fri, 1/16/09, Lluis Ripoll
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>><luisripoll@telefonica.net> wrote:
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>>>>From: Lluis Ripoll
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>>>>
>><luisripoll@telefonica.net>
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>>>>Subject: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
>>>>To: "Leica Users Group"
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>><lug@leica-users.org>
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>>>>Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:25 PM
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>I've saw this on e-bay, a Cooke Amotal like
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>>mine:
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>>http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310115966255
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>>>>On the advertising it is a link showing the
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>>pictures with
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>>>>this lens, I saw it... and this is my Gallery with
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>>this
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>>>>lens!, please look at "Please visit this
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>>link..."
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>>>> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=848443
>>>>
>>>>What do you think? it is correct ?
>>>>
>>>>Of course internet is a open window to the
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>>world...., but I
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>>>>didn't expect this...
>>>>
>>>>Saludos cordiales
>>>>Lluis
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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