F Murtz expressed precisely :
Precisly - it is a local rogue 'company' touting for work via a web site. The point is, no one with any sense would trust them to do any of the jobs they suggest they can do on the website, but its possible someone might be taken in by the photos. Anything beyond digging a hole in the ground, is completely beyond their technical ability.
They have completely misrepresented their limited abilities on their site and that is my main concern.
Surely in the UK you do not have to assert copyright; it is automatic isn't it?
In nay case just because it is in the public domain, it doesn't mean it has no copyright.
Robert
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:17:52 +0100, Artic > >
Not if the poster is not the copyright holder. i.e. if they were posted illegally then they have no rights.
Report it to the owner of the image.
If you feel strongly enough about it then tell the original copyright owner(s) about it. They are the ones who will have to act.
Be careful though the images might be boring standard stock material offered for end users to use by one of the website building toolkits.
I have had a few reports of my rarer images being misused online usually from someone who recognised one of my images being passed off as someone else's work. Someone once tried to sell one of my cacti on eBay - that is the picture they used was obviously of my plant!!!
Usually it just isn't worth the effort to enforce copyright on the internet unless real money is involved. The simplest method is to keep the valuable images below the quality needed for print publication.
probably why many people now put a watermark on photo's
To be honest if you post a pic on a public place ... you have to accept it can be lifted, you might not like it, but once out you lose control of it
Remember the Carpy vs Promax debacle Bill?
which takes a few minutes to airbrush out :-)
exactamundo.
the law is not actually that clear on that point.
I uploaded some of my photos to wikipedia for an article. Within a day, they were flagged as stolen, so I investigated, and they had found them on a website (albeit a different size/resolution). I had to explain that was my website, and then they were OK with them.
I had a similar problem when I expanded a stub on Wikipedia.
They removed my edits due to 'plagiarism'. Same wording and stuff on another website. Mine!
I have been under the impression that "in the public domain" is not a concept used in the law of England and Wales.
Not a proper water mark that is embedded into the image data by slightly altering pixel values in a known way.
These are mostly paid for services though.
If I am correct then that was then the 1972 June/July editon of Escort Magazine and your wife was in the Readers Wives section.
AICMFP
I stuck one of mine up - it's long enough ago that you get a better view of the object in question as the trees are smaller. I cropped it - the uncropped original (a 35mm slide) is proof I own it.
When this came up I googled for copies. I found some - with my wiki name credited!
Andy
I have found 5 websites in the last week using copies of my images, 2 after emailing them have taken them down,another 1 was a youngster with a blog which I have ignored, 1 other is going through the motions with the web host company and the other I await a response before going further.
The UK self-build forum (or whatever it's called) ripped off a load of stuff which Andrew Marks and I wrote for the original uk.diy FAQ. It took us quite a while to write that, checking up on all the details. They just passed it off as their own, and have subsequently dumped it into their wiki, which they obviously had no right to do.
I think that's the only one of my stolen web contributions which cheesed me off. As for pictures I upload, I kind of expect them to get reused. When I had a blog at Sun Microsystems, I did find that copied all over the place with click revenue adverts added in, but that seems to be normal nowadays.
I emailed you some photos of a pair of GEC4310s a couple of months back, not sure if you didn't reply because you've already got plenty, or because they didn't reach you?
For some reason that doesn't come up in one version of FF, but does in another. I've just spend (wasted?) an interesting afternoon seeing what from my site is 'out there'.
I suppose it's about what is to be expected, but I've found my satellite alignment diagrams as far afield as an Egyptian site in Arabic, and the waveform of a repaired vinyl click being used to sell something, wasn't quite sure what, but it looked expensive, on a Russian site. I've found my picture of the digitised waveform of complete side of a vinyl being used as someone's ID photo in blog posts, and as tag photos for 'compositions' by DJs - ironic quotes as doubtless the music samples were ripped off as well.
Also, it's quite extraordinary JUST how lazy website owners can be. By definition, you'd expect someone hotlinking from your website to be lazy - after all they are too lazy to produce their own pics - but so lazy as to be apparently unaware that it is the Copyright Violation Attempt image that's actually coming up, not the one they intended to link? Serves 'em bloody well right!
However, it seems that Google have a daily quota on that sort of image search, which I have now exhausted for today, so a return to normal life is enforced ...
But I bet there's a Sociology thesis >
Yes, I got them and I mentioned it on facebook, where several of my friends have worked on OS4000 some decades back, same as me.
Really sorry - I forgot to thank you for them. It was the uptime of over 14 years which was actually the most impressive bit. We knew how to build robust operating systems back then!
I have written a GEC4000 series emulator, which will boot and run the operating system (OS4000). It doesn't have emulators for the GEC4310 peripherals, but it will emulate the GEC4090, GEC41XX, and GEC42XX systems (and possibly the original GEC4080). I could add GEC4310 support, but I don't have the hardware/peripheral manuals for it.
When GEC (now Telent) stop supporting the systems, I will release the emulator for the nostalgia value. (It's no use without a copy of OS4000, which I can't distribute without their permission.)
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