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December 4, 2014 at 8:33 pm #816266
velo_nutParticipanthttp://torrentfreak.com/photographer-who-sued-imgur-now-has-a-pirate-bay-problem-141022/
Tough road ahead, for sure.
December 4, 2014 at 9:52 pm #819936
GinaParticipanthttp://archive.tobacco.org/news/300695.html
I have the theme tune from Man from La Mancha running through my head.
December 4, 2014 at 10:36 pm #819937
JanSParticipantstill, this is not just intruding cigarette smoke, this is copyrighted material and Christopher’s means of income being infringed and affected. The Pirate Bay guy is even goading him. Will be interesting to follow this.
December 4, 2014 at 11:25 pm #819938
kgdlgParticipantChristopher, were these images you uploaded to the Imgur site or is this like the realtor who stole one of your images and used it commercially? I think there is a difference. Would love to know your perspective, although maybe you cannot comment because it is in litigation…
December 4, 2014 at 11:33 pm #819939
LindseyParticipantImgur is an image hosting site. Anyone can download or copy (illegally) from someone’s website and put it up. So, somebody stole his images and put them up on the site. They should, however, swiftly respond to takedown notices. It’s a meme-type social website. I don’t think a photographer like Boffoli would put his stuff up there. Without trying to speak for him, I’m sure he didn’t, they were likely uploaded by someone else.
December 5, 2014 at 12:05 am #819940
GinaParticipanthttp://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/oth1/kelly_press_release_01.htm
Les Kelly won his lawsuit after five years of litigation. Every dime went for attorney fees. That is why I equate it with tilting at windmills. If the principle of the matter is something you are willing to pursue to the very end, and your pockets are deep, go for it!
December 5, 2014 at 12:43 am #819941
AndyParticipantInteresting. Years ago I had a blog. Nice little affair with 20 or 30 daily readers. Free blogger site, no money involved. There was a Boffoli video on the front page of the WSB one day that I thought was nice (WS neon signs set to music), so I posted it on my blog with a short write up. Credited him, linked to his page, credited WSB as the place that I first saw it. Checked all the internet protocol blocks. He came to my site and in the comments told me to take it down.
I had never seen anyone do that before, and haven’t since. Seems to be the thing that he has chosen to be his hill to die on.
December 5, 2014 at 2:36 am #819942
singularnameParticipantA couple of years ago I would have been empathetic to the copyright infringement. After having my photo and pithy side business crafts published in the Seattle Times, with no clue it was happening at the time, and then asking for permission to put the image on my website and being told “NO,” I say, “Who cares?” Hasn’t he used Legos in his work? … Where does it all end …
December 5, 2014 at 4:50 pm #819943
wakefloodParticipantI have empathy for artists/creatives who get taken advantage of, especially independents who generally don’t have deep pockets and/or a litigation team to do all the legwork.
Which is to say, if someone wants to run the trap lines for their work being misused, more power to them. If they choose not to, that’s a perfectly reasonable decision as well.
I think I hear Warren Zevon in the distance…”send lawyers, guns and money…”?
December 5, 2014 at 5:40 pm #819944
kgdlgParticipantnow having read all the articles. it seems like CB has a legitimate complaint. someone (presumably not him) uploaded high res copyrighted material to a file sharing site. that feels wrong to me, esp since his art is so particular.
the comments on the link above are pretty harsh on CB, all presume CB made the high res files available for stealing somehow, on Flikr? Or his own website? I don’t know. they presume that he did this knowing they would be “stolen”. That seems harsh judgement to me. If he has the resources to fight this, go for it.
WOuld love to hear his thoughts though…
December 5, 2014 at 9:08 pm #819945
JanSParticipantin the past week we’ve been hearing, in the news, from a lot of people saying that if you don’t do anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about. The people who are using CB’s art, are using it illegally…but that doesn’t count because? I don’t get it. Illegal is illegal no matter who you are. Yes, it’s the internet, but so what? I hope he sues the ass off them…and wins !
December 6, 2014 at 12:08 am #819946
funkietooParticipantYes…good luck to you Chris and thank you for taking a stand. This is your career; your creativity; your intellectual property; your copyright.
For those that have made such harsh comments about Chris. Wow. just wow. We have laws in place to protect others work/creations.
December 9, 2014 at 8:14 am #819947
singularnameParticipantMy apologies to Chris, and I do wish him success. … I was hijacking–my issue was about “the copyright on my own person” being photographed without permission, that photo of me and my own artwork being published, and then that photo being copyrighted by the photographer. I was wearing my cranky pants when I wrote that above.
December 9, 2014 at 9:25 am #819948
JanSParticipantsingular..if someone took my picture for publication in a newspaper, and then refused to give me permission to use the photo of ME in my personal website, etc., I would be pissed off, too !
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