~thengineer

image piracy is nothing new to the world of the internet. it happened to me as well. but read about this [link] . this one reaches a new dimension.

today i have written a new journal entry.

hi there


yes, i am back again from my vacation. this time i did not meet any nice british girls, but it was still really nice, sunny and warm..

but besides from racing against other kids, i also took some photographs. if some of them are compatible with dA, you will see them here. others might be put to flickr.

im however still thinking of watermarking my images in order to avoid problems like this one: [link]



and now excuse me, i have to start up photoshop (which takes some time)

i'll come to this place again soon: [link]


so have a nice week out there...

compare: [link] and [link]

so apparently they have taken my photo. (which is nice basically )

however they seem to give a shit about copyright. my photo is licensed under the creative commons -attribution license.

if you don't know the details, and are too lazy to read the link, here is what the cc license says:
- you may copy, alter and redistribute the work
- you must give credits to the original author, and
- you must mention that the subject is licensed under cc.

well, the last to points are not fulfilled. but what makes me really angry is that they write:
"© für die Fotos: Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis Marketing GmbH"
even if 90% of the photos where © by Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis Marketing GmbH, they can't ignore my work. (and its even the headline image..) and the other thing is that they probably haven't the permission of the mentioned copyright holder either.


and further they claim:
"1. Hinweise zum Nutzungsrecht
Inhaber der Nutzungsrechte an diesem PDF ist die Schneemenschen
GmbH. Dem Leser/Nutzer ist es nicht gestattet, die Inhalte oder Teile derselben
zu bearbeiten, zu vervielfältigen, zu verbreiten, öffentlich widerzugeben,
mit ihnen zu werben oder sie sonst in irgendeiner Form zu nutzen,
vorbehaltlich der vorherigen ausdrücklichen schriftlichen Zustimmung der
Schneemenschen GmbH."

translated freely:
"the owner of this pdf file is the Schneemenschen GmbH. the reader/user is not allowed to edit, copy, redistribute, perform in public or use in any other form, at least not with written permission of the Schneemenschen GmbH."

so they reversed the conditions of the creative commons, and to be exactly they even do not allow you to use (eg. read) that document....



so i'll probably go a lit posing with this pdf (look, they have used my work!) and then write a nice letter to them.