look familiar? rant

[sfenton@amazon.com (Fenton, Shannon)]

"I don't think ANYone should pull pix off of another web site and then
post them on their own site- without permission and Definitely not
without giving credit."

If we all felt this way the web would not be anywhere near as large and
as helpful as it is today. That's just retarded. Unless you are using a
pic for commercial purposes or that pic is of an artistic nature and you
are the artist its just a pic. For now Im going to leave the 3000 pics
on my site just the way they are. Some of them even have watermarks, and
guess what, if I see a cool pic on the web somewhere Im going to post it
on my site unless otherwise instructed not to by the owner, not just the
person who decides to watermark it.

werd

Shannon
www.scirocco16v.com

-----Original Message-----
From: T Berk [mailto:tberk@mindspring.com]=20
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:36 PM
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: look familiar? rant


Brian Haygood wrote:
>=20
> I don't get it guys.  Our pictures aren't copyrighted, and nobody is=20
> trying to make a profit off of them while excluding us.  We have no=20
> profits or interests to protect except that of generating interest in=20
> our cars, right? Why the heck do people get so pissed when someone=20
> takes pictures from our site?  They are just enthusiasts like us. =20
> Hell, the pictures from Duan's house of all the cars lined up in a VW=20
> emblem should be a cultural icon, not something we try to take credit=20
> for and horde for ourselves.


I believe the pics on the Org site should have a watermark placed on
them, a little line (very, very tiny) at the bottom giving thx for
source and others are supposed to credit sources.


I don't think ANYone should pull pix off of another web site and then
post them on their own site- without permission and Definitely not
without giving credit.

This issue was settled long before the Internet became the Web.

TBerk

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