[Leica] GOOGLE PHOTO USE???????????????? SUE THEM?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I do think a 475 ? 672 px is not a thumb print but a pinky print and its
like worrying about people stealing stuff off your contact sheets. Not
really worth worrying about.  Are we really loosing any significant money? I
don't think so.

Anything beats the sublime idiocy of people smearing their name across their
prints. As if people are clamoring to rip them off.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:13:36 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] GOOGLE PHOTO USE????????????????   SUE THEM?
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> I am a lawyer, but don't practice law.  I found the image here:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=trudeau+%22ted+grant%22+bannister+-kevin&hl=e
> n&sa=X&tbo=d&imgurl=http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/trudeau-
> ted-grant.jpg%3Fw%3D700&imgrefurl=http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/04/
> 09/trudeau-slides-down-a-banister/&h=648&w=460&sz=38&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSE
> gnBB5bQ5J_1V_1yG0PCugada-IA&ei=wPO3UNGZM6aoywGw4YHACw&ved=0CAUQrBE&biw=1536&
> bih=838
> 
> It is available in sizes from 106x150 pixels to 475x672.  So, forgive me, I
> downloaded the "big" one and resized it to 5x7" at 240ppi with PhotoZoom
> Pro.  I guess if someone wanted to print it on matte rag paper and frame 
> it,
> where the paper and glass hide many sins, it might be OK if someone was OK
> with a crappy reproduction of a famous photo.  The URL has your name, but
> the site just says "may be subject to copyright".   Can't help you with the
> legal issue, but it doesn't seem right.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> tedgrant at shaw.ca
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:19 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] GOOGLE PHOTO USE???????????????? SUE THEM?
> 
> Hi Crew,
> OK here's one for you, certainly any of the legal beagles out there? :-(
> 
> I was shown my photo of Prime Minister Trudeau sliding down the staircase
> railing at a high school today by a student who asked me to autograph it.
> "Where did you get this print?" I asked? And he responded... "oh you can 
> get
> 
> it off GOOGLE in many sizes!"   oops and thank you very much!
> 
> So Google have one of my pictures in their "Photo collection" without
> permission, they charge for prints! Do not have any rights to the photo let
> alone selling prints! As the Gallery representing sales of my photography
> have and look after all interest in this photo as described:  "The most
> ICONIC political photograph in the history of Canada."
> 
> Is there a wild possibility we can sue them unless they remove the photo 
> off
> their site and certainly stop the for sale.  And at the moment I, we? Have
> never been asked about it's use and where they got an original photo?
> 
> Suggestions.... GOOD, BAD OR UGLY. I thought I could sue for a million and
> get a MONOCHROME! :-)
> 
> thank you all for your insight and suggestions.
> 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted. 
> 
> 
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