The domain name is registered to Charlotte Weller and the administrative
contact is George Weller. It is probably a small home based business in
Houston. I doubt they have a "budget" to buy pictures. You might think
if there is a way that you could benefit from publicity they might
provide you. I would bet they would remove the picture if that is what
you want. The fact that they credited you would suggest they aren't
completely self centered.
If you have a web site that you want publicized I'll bet they would
gladly provide a link to it on their site. Think about how you can
benefit from an alliance of some sort.
-jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Wesson" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: [OM] OT copyright question
> Hi all,
>
> In an idle moment at work today I was browsing around some pages about
> solar eclipses, and to my surprise I found a site belonging to a
> commercial eclipse travel agent which has used one of my photos
without
> my permission:
>
> http://www.eclipsetours.com/transit1.html
>
> Mine is the Milky Way photo about half way down the page. At least
they
> included my name.
>
> As they're a commercial company I don't want them using my photos for
> free, and I want to write to them and tell them that. What I don't
know
> is what exactly I should be saying to them and how to approach this
> sensibly. Should I just ask them to cut the photo or would it be
> realistic to suggest some kind of payment? I thought I might suggest
> they give me a free ticket on the Mauritius tour!
>
> I have a vague sort of copyright notice on my webpages at
> http://www.worldtraveller.f9.co.uk/photo/copyright.htm which in light
of
> this I should probably revise. Not faced a situation like this before
> and appreciate any advice from you all.
>
> Cheers,
> Roger
>
>
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