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Copyright Infringement of Kayaking Photographs 17 years 8 months ago #21026
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One American-owned company, Adriatic Kayak Tours, based in Dubrovnik, has been using our photographs on their website and in their brochures without permission. We have asked them to stop, but they persist. Our lawyer has said it is slow to deal with such issues in Croatia. Does anyone have any experience with copyright infringement?
Their website is - www.adriatickayaktours.com Our website is - www.lifejacketadventures.com |
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Re:Copyright Infringement of Kayaking Photographs 17 years 8 months ago #21029
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I am sure I am missing them. Can up post the exact links to where they are? I couldnt find them.
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Re:Copyright Infringement of Kayaking Photographs 17 years 8 months ago #21033
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All the photos, except the one at the bottom and the one in the middle top, on their page - adriatickayaktours.com/tours-vis.html - are mine.
The 4 bottom pictures on - adriatickayaktours.com/tours-pedalpaddle.html - were provided to me by Felix Oppenheim, a professional Swedish photographer, with the his permission that I was to use them on my advertising (credited of course) as I saw fit (I have his original email from 2 years ago). The two lower right pictures on - adriatickayaktours.com/index.html - are copies of those used on other pages. You can see the pictures on our website - lifejacketadventures.com/tours/tours.htm lifejacketadventures.com/stories/stories.htm You can see the article that Felix was photographer for - www.lifejacketadventures.com/stories/pdfs/outside.pdf - when he was on a tour with me. You can see more of the pictures AKT used in our brochures - www.lifejacketadventures.com/tours/pdfs/...Hvar_Kayak_Tour2.pdf www.lifejacketadventures.com/tours/pdfs/...vnik_Kayak_Tour2.pdf |
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Re:Copyright Infringement of Kayaking Photographs 17 years 8 months ago #21036
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Wow that is pretty pathetic of them. I hope they burn for it.
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Re:Copyright Infringement of Kayaking Photographs 17 years 8 months ago #21114
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Thanks to all for the messages on how to solve this problem. Adriatic Kayak Tours in Croatia has now removed our photographs from their website. The method used to force them to comply was the Digital Millenium Copyright Act - their ISP, Google and Yahoo all threatened to shutdown their website if they didn't take our pics off.
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Re:Copyright Infringement of Kayaking Photographs 17 years 6 months ago #21894
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I've just had a local rafting company steal one of my photos. I mailed them more than 48 hours ago asking them to kindly remove the photo and explained to them about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act AS WELL AS the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 in terms of South African law which covers any South African work to any other country too. So far, zero reply. I've just mailed Yahoo, I am going to fax Google just now as they don't accept e-mails but how would I contact their internet service provider? How do you know who runs them, if I can call it that? Any advice would be most grateful. Thanks.
If they had just asked, I would have gladly sent them some pictures free of charge. But now the end result is more than likely that their site will be dropped from search engine results and of course that is bad for their business.. People are so short sighted. But then again it's a typical South African mentality where people don't give a rats ass about any kinds of laws. It can be seen from simple things like people driving double the speed limit, to more serious things like rape and murder. South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. A lot of it stems from people having zero regard for our so called 'law'. Then when they are caught, their punishments don't fit the crime and so the entire system is ridiculed. Anyway, enough of me carrying on... Just a little agitated today.. hehehe  Must be the fact that it is rainy nicely and I can't paddle!   |
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Re:Copyright Infringement of Kayaking Photographs 17 years 6 months ago #21901
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go to a 'whois' such as - www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml
put in their url - in our case we were searching for adriatickayaktours.com then something like this will appear - Current Registrar: PAIRNIC IP Address: 216.146.205.75 (ARIN & RIPE IP search) IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-PENNSYLVANIA-PITTSBURGH Record Type: Domain Name Server Type: Apache 2 Lock Status: ok Web Site Status: Active DMOZ no listings Y! Directory: see listings Secure: No E-commerce: Yes Traffic Ranking: Not available Data as of: 22-Apr-2008 do an internet search for the current registrar - in our case PAIRINC find their complaints department and send them an email. |
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