Roger,
I agree with Jeff's response. It would be very easy for them to remove your
image from their site and get another somewhere else. So your image is not
worth very much to them. The most you'd probably get out of them is a link to
your site. If they're in a good mood, maybe they would offer you a 5 0iscount
on one of their tours.
Matt
At 10:09 30-04-03 -0700, Jeff Keller wrote:
>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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