[Leica] Found on e-Bay

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

Just for the sake of chewing on this bolus a little bit more, I wonder if it 
occurred to Lluis to ask permission from ebay when he posted a link to their 
site in his letter here, or to ask the seller whose listing it is? If he is 
like me, I'm sure he did it without giving it a second thought, as have many 
of us here. 

Without descending into hair-splitting legalistic weasel words please, does 
anyone care to defend the position that what is OK for Luis to do is wrong 
for somebody else? (Nothing personal Lluis - like I said, I've done it too).

On re-reading the listing, I think the seller was wrong not to make it more 
clear that Lluis's photo's were not taken with the lens on auction. And yes, 
it would have been polite to at least give Lluis credit.

Beyond that, I agree with what Doug was getting at, which is that if you 
want to keep a proprietary relationship to the stuff you put up on the web, 
its up to you to exert ownership through water-marking, encryption, password 
protection, or whatever. Facts of life, folks.

Otherwise you're making information freely available and you can't let your 
feelings get hurt when somebody else makes free use of it - you should 
expect it.


--- On Fri, 1/16/09, Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net> wrote:

> From: Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net>
> Subject: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:25 PM
> Hi all,
> 
> I've saw this on e-bay, a Cooke Amotal like mine:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310115966255
> 
> On the advertising it is a link showing the pictures with
> this lens, I saw it... and this is my Gallery with this
> lens!, please look at "Please visit this link..."
> 
>  http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=848443
> 
> What do you think? it is correct ?
> 
> Of course internet is a open window to the world...., but I
> didn't expect this...
> 
> Saludos cordiales
> Lluis
> 
> 
> 
> 
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