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Re: "One more site with stolen Don's panoramas"
William Lebovich 2005-Jan-10 19:20:00
I am writing to strongly support Don's position on illegal,
unauthorized use of web images. One of the reasons to vigorously
protect copyright is to prevent people from altering and/or using your
images in a way that is contrary to your vision and your intent.
Bill Lebovich
On Jan 10, 2005, at 1:34 PM, G. Donald Bain wrote:
> I am always willing to let my images be used in promoting VR - three
> are on panoramas.dk and four on wwp. Alex had one on his site for a
> while. But these were all given with explicit permission, and were
> properly attributed and linked back to my site.
>
> I also encourage links to my site to promote tourism, and for
> educational purposes. But the links must mention me and my site, and
> link to whole pages, not the images out of context. Nobody contacted
> me
> about use on this site, and there is no attribution or linking.
>
> I know many people assume images on the web are "free" and theirs for
> the taking. I have had to remove images from faculty websites for
> copyright infringement. One professor recently published a book that
> used a dozen of my photos (from Images of the California Environment
> on
> Geo-Images) -- I only knew about it because he wanted higher
> resolution
> versions. He said he intended to "tell me" (rather than "ask me")
> before actual publication.
>
> I am not loosing much in this instance of piracy - old panoramas,
> no-one obviously profiting. But we all lose in general, from the lack
> of recognition of our copyright and what we deserve in terms of
> personal credit and a share of profits for our work.
>
> We should all be on the lookout for this sort of unprincipled (or
> uninformed) behavior, and do what we can to combat it.
>
> Don
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Alex Makienko wrote:
>
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > I am also a Russian speaker but I haven't found any references to
> Don's
> > permission and link to Don's website. So who's rights reserved -
> it's
> > an
> > issue. :-)
> >
> > Well, the idea of the site looks attractive and I do not think
> there's
> > a
> > reason to start any kind of prosecution (Don may have another
> > opinion). I
> > would suppose that as we are interested in QTVR promotion, many of
> us
> > would
> > be pleased to provide some panoramas for free to propagate and
> promote
> > the
> > QTVR art in that part of the world. But the only condition is
> > mandatory -
> > absolutely no copyright violations.
> >
> > I will try to contact site administration and to resolve this
> problem.
> > If
> > Don gives them a permission and the conflict is resolved we may try
> to
> > cooperate with these guys.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tim Hatch" <#removed#>
> > To: <#removed#>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 11:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: "Don Bain - superstar" or "One more site with
> > stolen
> > Don's panoramas"
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On Jan 9, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Alex Makienko wrote:
> >>
> >>> Here is a link to the page with some Don's QTVR's. I couldn't find
> >>> any
> >>> reference or author's permission.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.vtur.ru/country/canada/panorama.htm
> >>>
> >>
> >> I had a speaker of Russian take a look at it, and it seems to be
> >> promoting tourism of Canada (possibly a travel agency, it mentions
> >> pricing at one point). The second link on the teal navbar
> >> (?B?U?e?^?g?U?h?r
> >> ?e?^?g?r?b?d) translates as "Send Mail," if you're looking for a contact
> >> avenue. The text next to the Canadian flag (?D???B?C?E???A?B?P?
> >> ?R??F?D?C???K??)
> >> translates as "Panorama Exposition," and the text at the bottom
> says
> >> "Moscow. All rights reserved." (?A?d?g?`?W?U. ??g?Z ?e?f?U?W?U
> >> ?]?U?o?^?o?Z?c?q.)
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ------
> >> The World-Wide Panorama
> >>
> >> For more information:
> >> -Visit the web site at http://GeoImages.Berkeley.edu/wwp.html
> >> Yahoo! Groups Links
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > ------
> > The World-Wide Panorama
> >
> > For more information:
> > -Visit the web site at http://GeoImages.Berkeley.edu/wwp.html
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> The World-Wide Panorama
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> For more information:
> -Visit the web site at http://GeoImages.Berkeley.edu/wwp.html
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