Dave Clark of Web-Legal is well-known as about an honest and straight-shooting a guy as you can find on the Web, so when he sends out a notice like this, I think everyone should read it, especially all the content providers in the bunch. Let me add that I (and Dave) are not yet making any specific charges here and there might be some rational explanation for what's going on here, though nothing comes to mind immediately:
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Heylo!
(blah, blah, blah)
It was pointed out to me tonight by one of my publishers that their material was being licensed out on downloadablecontent.com . The problem was that they had no authorization to do this from the publisher. I've given a quick look at downloadablecontent.com, and we have found four products already that may be ripped off.. however, it will be up to the owners to decide.
I'm asking everyone to go check out that site, and let me know if you find anything of yours that you did not give permission to be there. I want to try to figure out what all is happening here, and then we can plan a course of action once we know what is going on.
As far as the four that we have possibly ID'ed, I'll contact those
publishers directly as well, but I strongly urge everyone to go in
there and have a look around. You will know your works better than I do, and you are the ones that have a legal right to bust some heads if there is illegally used content on there.
OK, that's all for now... please let me know what you find out.
Dave Clark
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Now, I'm going to trot off and see if any of my content is there. If you buy content from these guys, you might not get a good licence to do it, and as I remind my customers from time to time: I don't really sell photos, I sell the right to use photos.
***** Begin Quote *****
Heylo!
(blah, blah, blah)
It was pointed out to me tonight by one of my publishers that their material was being licensed out on downloadablecontent.com . The problem was that they had no authorization to do this from the publisher. I've given a quick look at downloadablecontent.com, and we have found four products already that may be ripped off.. however, it will be up to the owners to decide.
I'm asking everyone to go check out that site, and let me know if you find anything of yours that you did not give permission to be there. I want to try to figure out what all is happening here, and then we can plan a course of action once we know what is going on.
As far as the four that we have possibly ID'ed, I'll contact those
publishers directly as well, but I strongly urge everyone to go in
there and have a look around. You will know your works better than I do, and you are the ones that have a legal right to bust some heads if there is illegally used content on there.
OK, that's all for now... please let me know what you find out.
Dave Clark
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Now, I'm going to trot off and see if any of my content is there. If you buy content from these guys, you might not get a good licence to do it, and as I remind my customers from time to time: I don't really sell photos, I sell the right to use photos.
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