Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Jan 17 11:04:43 2009
References: <414249.61594.qm@web55908.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:48 AM, H. Ball Arche wrote:

> Just for the sake of chewing on this bolus a little bit more, I  
> wonder if it occurred to Lluis to ask permission from ebay when he  
> posted a link to their site in his letter here, or to ask the seller  
> whose listing it is? If he is like me, I'm sure he did it without  
> giving it a second thought, as have many of us here.
>
> Without descending into hair-splitting legalistic weasel words  
> please, does anyone care to defend the position that what is OK for  
> Luis to do is wrong for somebody else? (Nothing personal Lluis -  
> like I said, I've done it too).
>
> On re-reading the listing, I think the seller was wrong not to make  
> it more clear that Lluis's photo's were not taken with the lens on  
> auction.

though we very regularly extrapolate from photos taken with one  
particular lens, to all lenses of that type...

Steve

> And yes, it would have been polite to at least give Lluis credit.
>
> Beyond that, I agree with what Doug was getting at, which is that if  
> you want to keep a proprietary relationship to the stuff you put up  
> on the web, its up to you to exert ownership through water-marking,  
> encryption, password protection, or whatever. Facts of life, folks.
>
> Otherwise you're making information freely available and you can't  
> let your feelings get hurt when somebody else makes free use of it -  
> you should expect it.
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net>
>> Subject: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:25 PM
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've saw this on e-bay, a Cooke Amotal like mine:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310115966255
>>
>> On the advertising it is a link showing the pictures with
>> this lens, I saw it... and this is my Gallery with this
>> lens!, please look at "Please visit this link..."
>>
>> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=848443
>>
>> What do you think? it is correct ?
>>
>> Of course internet is a open window to the world...., but I
>> didn't expect this...
>>
>> Saludos cordiales
>> Lluis
>>
>>
>>
>>
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