Stolen Photo...
 

Well, looky what I just stumbled upon. Take a look at the photo in the banner for this site:


Now that a look at this photo (that I took):


It can be found from this page:


No one ever asked me for permission to use that photo. Isn't that copyright infringement?

Yes it is.
Contact them and tell them to take it down or pay you.

I would imagine you would have to have had the pics copyrighted before it's infringement.

No, you don't need to copyright family photos do you?

Get them to put a credit to the site.

I'd ask for cash. :cool:

Maybe Lou would be up for his first case? :)

Lou, can we get a statement from you regarding this?

The moment a photograph is taken, it is considered a copyrighted work of the photographer's.

I'm not going to make a big deal out of this, but I am going to contact them. They should have asked first.

Ohhh stop being a pussy.

I want a big deal made out of it.

Come on guys!

Big Deal!
Big Deal!
Big Deal!

Chant with me!

shit if he makes money off it, id say it should be a big deal

Im sure he isnt making that much money off it. He simply wants to get credited and maybe a talkingpoker link on the site somewhere or something.

thats just as good, it would bring more people here

No idea.

Contact them, see what happens... maybe he can get a few bucks out of it.

What I do know is that even IF they say "Fuck you, we're using the picture, so get used to it..." He's not going to bring a lawsuit, so it really doesn't matter.

TP,

That will be $800.00

Thank You
Lou, ESQ

And 10% for his manager. ;)

shoot 'em up

Right.... but I could send him a DMCA notice if I wanted to pursue it. If I got the FU response after that, I could forward it to his web host and get his site shut down.

There are plehnty of effective things I could do short of filing a lawsuit...

I emailed earlier today. No response yet.

"Call 1-800-Injury1"

"I am THE injury lawyer. I don't get paid unless you get paid..."

DMCA? Yea, like I said, I'm not familiar w/ copyright law, so my opinion isn't too useful. I'd love to hear the response you get - that is - if you even get a response.

If he doesn't get a response, I say turn it over to me.

Lead pipes, trenchcoats, those freaky masks from Point Break with Patrick and Keanau.

Yeah, they'd change their tune real quick.

I'll take care of the photo, but there is a local guy here who owes me $200 (from poker). I'll sell it to you for $160, giving you a cool $40 profit if you are able to collect. He hasn't answered or returned my phone calls for 4 months now.

You are shortchanging yourself there TP.
I used to get $90 on the $100, for debts such as those.
Of course the guys I dealt with added a "surcharge" of sorts ;)

I've never been in situation like that before! LOL.

I actually saw the best 'injury lawyer' ad ever the other day. There's one guy who's notorious for his self-perpetuated 'Strongarm' image (as well as numerous drunk-driving offenses, but that's another story). Well, someone else did an ad having 'clients' talk about him, and one line really stuck with me, went something like '..you don't have to strongarm anyone, you just have to DO YOUR JOB.' Ice burn. :D

For those of you who have been holding your breath to see how this all turned out, I got this response today:

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Hi Mark,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I have been out of
town. I apologize for displaying your image, I bought the site on Ebay
and had no idea the image had been taken from someone else. I'll
create a new one and get it up hopefully by Thursday. I am in the
process of creating a whole new site and will link to your site when
it goes online. Again, please accept my apologies.


Best Regards,
David Goats
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Works for me.