Vendor Stole My Photo

[LowR3V'in]

it IS, but how would he prove it since everything on the car is changed.

I don't know how these things work. I guess it's up to the judge to look at both
pictures side by side huh?

[ck_taft325is]

Well I imagine in your scenerio, it would just benefit to go on every online forum you could and let people know they are cheap skates that wont pay/work for their own advertising, much less products and it would be best to just not deal with such a un-professional company.

Only a few steps away at that level of un-professionalism from accepting your money, not answering your calls, e-mails etc etc, and then informing you when you've got a lawyer that it's on back order and will be a "few" weeks then never delivering said product.

[Fidhle007]

And when they deliver it two months later, it's complete and utter shit and looks like it was made by retarded monkeys...

[speedminded]

it IS, but how would he prove it since everything on the car is changed.

I don't know how these things work. I guess it's up to the judge to look at both
pictures side by side huh?

lol! You tell me if it's the same pic...do they resemble each other?

[Massive Lee]

Speedminded. I am 100% with you. Good luck in your quest.

[transatlantic0207]

Man that's completely different!! You have no case and I hope you have to pay eurostop's or dtmxxx legal bills...in your's there is clearly two holes above the brake ducts and in their's they're not there!

Seriously though, that's blatant and I think they should ante up and compensate you accordingly. Even though it was removed, it was still used without your expressed consent. Mistake on their part or not, the law is there for this exact reason. Good luck and please update.

[TheB1G Lebowski]

That sucks bro. Good luck, its too bad big business cant just talk to someone and explain. They think they can ignoir and get away with out answering for thier actions. Where you at in N GA? I used to live in Hartwell/Lavonia.

[TheB1G Lebowski]

lol! You tell me if it's the same pic...do they resemble each other?

Guess they found the same Porche for the pic they "took". lol.

[Aptyp]

don't know about how much photoshop is enough photoshop, but

was deemed original from Associated Press image.


To bad that guy eventually went crazy and went to court while burning original works and had his attorney walk out on him.

[BigD]

I don't think Aptyp's point is as asinine as some of you make it out to be. I haven't seen him say that what the website did was OK and the OP should shut up about it. All he seems to me to be saying is that this could have been dealt with much more quietly and reasonably. I don't see anything wrong with that. You don't have to automatically beat your chest about it (especially, as Aptyp points out, if you are just as guilty of the same thing or worse). Just because you have the right to do something, it doesn't mean that you must.

As far as compensation, you'll first have to prove that it's your photo. I've been to several races with friends or near other photographers and we have almost identical photographs. You'll also have to prove that they stole it from your website, and it wasn't stolen by someone else, then cropped, and this is the version they found (I've known a few people ignorantly in possession of stolen property - they just have it confiscated). And THEN you'll have to hope that they actually pay up and don't simply shut down the business and stiff you.

Alternatively - you've told them they're in violation, they took the pic down, the end. You're not metallica and they're not napster, back down, before you waste more of your time and money.

[kishg]

law maybe on speedminded's side but i still think it could have been handled differently. besides, did the owners of those cars in the pic provide written permission for the picture to be taken and displayed?

[xwill112x]

im with aptyp, you should have gave them a call and discussed matters first, who knows you may have gotten things worked out. there was no reason to "attack" like you have, but then again, they should have asked you for permission. But clearly now, you certainly now have pissed them off and the e30 community is tight. now there's always going to be a smudge there.
good job bringing bullshit into the e30 scene OP.

[Miasma]

I love how everyone is trying to turn this around on the OP.

I am with you OP, Noone has the right to take your property. Don't listen to the baggypants noobs spouting off at the mouth.

[lennon]

. But clearly now, you certainly now have pissed them off and the e30 community is tight. now there's always going to be a smudge there.
good job bringing bullshit into the e30 scene OP.

[Wh33lhop]

Just to shut you up for a little while:

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=152780

Your avatar is someone's intellectual property and it may sway a buyer if they take into account how swell of character you are based on it.

You're also selling a "clone" MarkD chip there... Somehow I "feel" MarkD lost money on that. Again, don't be a hypocrite.

You are really grasping here, and don't worry, you haven't shut me up in any way shape or form.