Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information