I rarely send out mass emails and my network I keep under blind copies, but this issue is important so i hope you read it FYI, because it concerns us all!
If you felt insulted by it then look to your own self?
Just delete it and me if it bothers you so much, but then you will never know what is happening?
People will always steal and if you think you are immuned from this - you better have deep pockets to stop this!
Place like Gather uses its members to creat ideas for other people who are in the business of making money any way they can so in case you are wondering your stuff becomes a property of the world when you post it and not yours anymore.
It is just a sign of the times and crimminals operate on the highlest level of our society and act as if they know you are the little person who can never follow through and find a way to stop them.
Even a cease and desist court order will not stop them.
So know that when you click upload that your material will go where- ever it will and let it go, because no one gives a rats arse anymore!
It is a travesty, but a reality!
FYI:
I would like to make all my Gather connections aware that last night I discovered that one of my Gather connections has copied and downloaded one of MY photos and has used it in a calendar they are selling on Zazzle.com. Please read MY ARTICLE for more details... thanks!
Sue
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I do not accept your reasoning that you cannot let people know about who this person is- trademark and copyright infringments need to be addressed and if you do not post this link then it could well be a ploy from you to just get people to your site which would be a violation. Expose the law breakers so as a group we can help to stop this!- Unless it is just your way to get noticed which to me seems more like a publicity stunt! If this person is doing it then it is our right to know and not your right to withhold unless there is something else going on?
You would need very deep pockets to stop a theif like this, but our numbers could easily put and end to all this speculation so unless this is your ploy just to garner points- I suggest you can at least provide a link to the offenders site!
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Bite the offenders!
Chis...the member who had a photo stolen is Sue M. I don't have the link to her article, but if you go to her namespace, it should be one of the last articles she has written.
I have a rule to post nothing that means a whole heck of a lot to me. That includes fiction that is not already posted elsewhere online, family photos and more.
It hurts us to keep these things to ourselves in that we cannot receive feedback, but lack of feedback is a better fate than large works of fiction stolen or a photo of your child on some unsavory website, etc.
As to my photos I neve thought someone would steal them. I wonder
Marianne you are right - easy coding but will Gather do it? I don't think so since anything on Gather is also on Google.
Sue's Article
You would need very deep pockets to stop a theif like this, but our numbers could easily put and end to all this speculation so unless this is your ploy just to garner points- I suggest you can at least provide a link to the offenders site!
How to stop the thieves?
Regds
Max
Gather Gremlins seem to be at work here ?
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I have had many rude remarks concerning this- I wanted to let my Gather friends know what is going on only!
If you got many replies- blame it on Gather Gremlins- i sent only one!
If it concerns you then kewl if not delete!
Simple- don't be an arse hole- just move on and handle it!
If you are one of the thieves then hopefully you will be caught and suspended.
If you are not then now you are aware of this problem- it isn't mine, but I thought it was important enough to assist FYI!
This was intended for real artists that are concerned not the idiots that seem to also come and use this site!
If you have a problem with it block me!
Best regards!
Post this article to the group "Building A Better Gather" and see what happens.
FYI what is important to many is not important to some!
Enough said- gather gremlins at work and seems to piss off mean spirited people!
I think it has more to do with the person who originally posted the article!- aka Sue!
If you read the article and follow her link and see how much attention she has garnered it makes more sense.
I recieved a mass email and wondered why the game of not addressing a person accuser.
If you create something and someone takes your work and says its theirs and collects money for it then what are your rights?
If you give it freely and someone takes your work and makes money from it and does not recognize the legitamate owner of the material it is clearly thievery and therefore it is in the community of gather to address these issues and not have to do a merry go round to Sues site and to Dazzels site to see if our own material is also included with it.
Words are too linear and will always cause debate, but I am not a point whore and it surprises me from everything that I have contributed to Gather that this article would get by far the greatest response, but it pales to the response that Sue has garnered from it and that also needs to be addressed and if Gather does nothing then what?
After all we are all from the same community aren't we?
Gather is currently reviewing all procedures and protocol concerning copyright violation however, it is important to note that there is no fool-proof technology available to prevent people from lifting images from one website and putting them on another. That said, there are steps we can all take to make it more difficult for images to be copied. They are as follows:
1. Place a Digital Watermark and/or Signature on your image(s)
This will definitely accredit the image(s) to you. However, it's important to note that watermarks can be cropped out of photos and even removed with imaging software.
2. List your copyright on every page of your published content
Although this action won't necessarily stop individuals from lifting your images, it will inform people that you are organized and your work is cataloged.
3. Share only small, low resolution images
This way, if the images are blown up or re-edited they will appear pixilated and ultimately un-viewable.
4. Make your images private or available to only select groups or people.
By limiting the exposure of your images to only people you know and trust, the likelihood that your content will be stolen is greatly minimized.
In the next few weeks we will be making improvements to the publishing process which will give all members more control over who can view their content. Details will be outlined in an article that will be published with the next site upgrade.
With my over a million viewers and many hundreds of videos and photographs-posted - it becomes the benefit of everyone in the world it's all just information and everyone anywhere on earth with a computer can and will do with it what they want- please be real about it and not make this a serial story for the benefit of the advertisers to prove you have an audience or for garnering points and creating fodder for political debate- enough said my article is nothing and should not even be compared to Sue and her situation.
BTW- I still cannot even load my videos to Gather anymore and still this hasn't been addressed properlly- so I am sure Gather is working on it yeah right!
I guess there will always be people who will steal, whether it's in stores or on Gather.
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That's incorrect and inaccurate. It STILL belongs to the person who created it. Morally, ethically AND legally. Just saying something doesn't make it true.
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Doyle I <~~~~~
So it is very accurate and applicable.
So Doyle- whoever has the deepest pockets always in the end wins be it moral or ethical it is just the way of the world. Might makes right in the land of the free!
You're a fool. RepubliCON, right?
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~