look familiar

Yeah, thats superflyrolla.....ice and all.

And no, theres nothing he can do about them using his pics.

Superflyrolla took those pics...if he didnt go through the process to copyright those pictures, he has no legal case. Those pics are available b/c of the Fair Use Act.

Now, if Superflyrolla had copyrighted them, he would have a case since that company is getting financial gain from pics that arent theirs.

ok - too much lawyer like talk... stop it! lol

Sorry, but YOU are wrong. One of the things I actually paid attention to in college.

And its cool that you copy and pasted that from the internet, but it doesnt apply to what we're talking about. Now, lets add the part that you left out, which DOES apply to what we're talking about.

"Registration with the Copyright Office is optional, but allows you to collect attorney's fees and statutory damages (a valuable right when actual damages are hard to prove) for any infringement that commences after the registration.

You will have to register your copyrighted work, however, before you can file an infringement law suit."

UNTIL you register your images to copyright, you have NO LEGAL RECOURSE. And any monetary gain that that company received BEFORE you registered to copyright your material, is NOT disputable.

Yeah, he can copyright those pics, and then tell them that the images are copyrighted, and they'll have to take em down. But only because they are using them for financial gain.

Now, lets add some more from that site:

So why register my copyright?
For several reasons:

First, you can't even start a law suit until you have registered your copyright in your work.
Second, if someone copied from you before you registered your copyright, your remedies in court are more limited. You can still try to get a court order requiring them to stop copying. But if you want money damages, you have a more difficult path if your copyright wasn't registered beforehand. You can get your "actual damages" -- but it is often difficult to prove how many sales you would have had if the copying hadn't occurred.
When someone copies from a work that has previously been registered with the copyright office, on the other hand, that person may have to pay up to $100,000 for each willful infringement, plus the copyright holder's attorney's fees. These "statutory damages" do not require proof of any actual losses, and they are not available if the copying took place before the copyright is registered.
And one final reason for registering a copyright is that registration may well deter someone from copying in the first place.

Until they are registered for copyrighting, the "borrower" is protected under the Fair Use Act. And watermarking them isnt protecting your images either.

And here is the site that you took that QUOTE from:
http://www.wiredsafety.org/law/copyrights/register.html

And I have a degree in Telecommunications. What school did ya go to?

see i like my resolution - you use my pics to profit w/o my permission, i'll just knock your server off the internet... -- done --

Nice. Are you currently in that field?

Well, it doesnt matter where ya got it from. Its all statutes anyways, so the wording will be exact. But ya didnt include the vital parts of the information....so, like I said before....his pics arent copyrighted, so theres nothign he can do about.

If he doesnt want people using his pictures, he can copyright them, or not post them on the internet.

And thus breaking more laws than the person you are lashing out at?

Well, this has all be under the assumption that he hasnt given permission.

If he has given permission, that doesnt make my argument wrong. Just doesnt pertain to his situation in that case.

Okay, but you were first to say that I was wrong.

I said he had no legal case...and you tried to prove me wrong, and you didnt.
You told me to trust you, and ya called me bud

So, like I said in my first post....if hes upset that his pics are being used, theres nothing he can do about it, unless he registers them with the copyright office. And once he registers them, these companies will have to take down his pics.

This topic comes up every few weeks, because someone finds a members pic on a website, on ebay, etc. And yeah, ethically they SHOULD ask for permission, but they dont HAVE TO.

Ok. As of right now, he has no case.

Copyright them with the copyright office, and if they keep using the pics after that is approved, he has a case.

Cool.

Its all good. Points were proven.

He hasnt been on since the thread was started....he'll see it.