about stealing on Gather. The accused person is a good friend of mine, but I believe the email. I checked out the images and they're not pictures one person could take in a lifetime. Should I confront the person, forward the email, or just delete them as a friend?? What would you do, and what should I do.
I'd like to email this accused person and ask if it's true, but I don't want to get the person who sent the email in trouble.
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This reminds me of the lynching scenes in those olden days -- wooo mama!
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There are laws in this country;
are we or
are we not
governed by laws.
J Corn even provided a link
to copyright info.
You guys -- what?
Just want to be vigilantes????
I'm afraid of people who want to take the law into their own hands.
They've done that to my people before.
Suppose they decide to do it again.
Take a deeeep breath, and get a grip. . .
Sheesh!
this is a tough spot to be stuck in Carol....
try to be diplomatic.....
You could always forward the email but remove the information who it is from originally first. You could always just delete them as a friend. You could tell them why you are deleting them without revealing how you found out.
That's rediculous and untrue. Gather won't do anything about it until the owner complains . . . but if you post a Yosemite photo well known to be the work of Ansel Adams and claim it as your own . . . I damn sure CAN and WILL claim it's stolen. Even things in public domain are, in my opinion, stealing the due recognition in a dishonest and entirely unethical manner when someone tries to pass it off as their own.
Just because Gather chooses not to act until contacted by the owner does not mean it's not theft.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
Oh brother, won't people grow up, and join the rest of the law-abiding world.
J Corn has given you a link. Use it. Stop this unnecessary witch hunt. It shall get you nowhere, but more drama.
Copyright info
Hopefully, there is now a clickable link there as well.
Having noted that, here is where I find information about how to protect one's work. When your work is on sites where you sign "terms of agreement" then you are in a grey area, depending on what you have signed. I note this as someone who writes not only on Gather. I have optioned or sold my work to magazines and other publications. In those cases, I can give away all rights or maintain copyright rights but allow permission for my article to be published, once.
Are these agreements always followed to the letter of the law by sites or readers or other writers? No. That is a reality. One must be pro-active, depending on how much it matters. Some people have their work in stock publishing or photo areas, offered free, in exchange for a credit to the writer or photographer.
To be fair, these transgressions happen even in the larger areas of publishing. An editor once made up "facts" about someone I'd profiled and published them, with my name as "author" of the piece. I saw red. I never wrote for the publication again.
It bothers me when people mass mail the Gather community about these things.
Got into enough hot water here last week!
You do what you think you have to do, which I would guess just be to contact the person... if they're really your friend, they should be truthful to you.
This is why in copyright law, only the person who holds a legitimate copyright (or someone legally acting on their behalf) is allowed to raise a complaint (with Gather, for instance.)
I'm not saying that stealing is right or moral or anything like that but it seems that others have already tried and deemed her guilty. Wow I'm glad my butt is not on the chopping block 'cause some people are so quick to judge and hang someone. I wonder if they asked her first...privately?
Probably the best thing.
Good luck!
Good luck
And then they argue about it instead of quietly slinking away........ Come on.
I also sent Camille Anne an email with the stolen pics copyrighted with LYLA on it!
I don't like to hear about or spread information about people that is inaccurate.
If they were hers then they would not have the exact same background.. normally I could care less about this but she actually put her copyright on them... thats just wrong!!
the pictuers
funny how everyone whines about this all the time then when someone actually tries to do something about it everyone else acts like its no big deal.. and heck I dont even post pictures that would be questioned if they are mine or not.. Why should I even care... well I do this time. So what!
maybe gather's TOS needs to take the minimum age limit for account holders up a few notches.
You're awesome. The point here is not the posting of a photo, it's the intent of passing it off as something you did. The meez of my icon is not my artwork and that's obvious nor is it copyrighted. We don't want to hang people who find a neat image and want to share it. There is a fine line there. Some people are crossing that fine line and making it a cavern.
Regardless of who and what and what gather doesnt do. I think this all says a lot about the integrity of the site and what it allows its members to get away with.
If we had any clue what this meant, maybe we could offer advice.