UN steals my images to promote gun control in Sri Lanka!

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First the Economist, and then the UN! I don't know what you can do, but it's disgusting. They should be promoting arming of peasants (esp. women) around the world.
 
good chance that whatever program was used to edit the image left a little fingerprint of some sort in the headers of the file
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JPEG image files are pretty sanitary when it comes to extra info. JPEG "headers" (no formal headers, just the start of the file) don't have much: image size, number of color components (color depth), and sampling factors for the color components.

+1 to the social engineering approach. You can find out a *lot* about just about anything that way when done properly. (Read "The Art of Deception" by Kevin Mitnick; kind of scary) Although information obtained that way may have limited legal power, I don't really know.
 
I'm afraid that there will probably be little chance of tracking down the party that's directly responsible for ripping Oleg off. Odds are it was just some graphics department hack who was instructed to find a picture of one of those evil gun thingies, and came up with Olegs photo, snagged it, and submitted her work to her overlord just under the wire. She may have even been clever enough to see the irony in what she was doing.

I strongly suspect the odds that Oleg will be compensated as he should be are _very_ small.

But there *must* be a way to get them to stop distribution of the image. Does the NRA have legal staff that they can provide for consulting in situations like this?
 
Aren't there any I.P. lawyers floating around here? That would be the best source of information as to what options exist. Sorry, I'm a criminal lawyer, and of no help here.

If it wasn't for the gun side of this, I bet the major networks would love this story. Since there are guns involved... :banghead:
 
:rolleyes: Looks like whoever made those posters can't even use proper English:


"Who are giving us the weapons are killing us whole. The risk that damaged your self is in your hand now"

"Lets see Somalia free from gun. No person has right to own his gun, but has right to live security"

"Impose ban on toy guns too!!" Okay, not bad English as such, but multiple exclamation marks... clearly a sign of a deranged mind. (That, and the stupidity of the proposal as well).


http://www.iansa.org/action/woa2005/posters.htm
 
you know, it might not hurt to submit it to drudge. he's the sort who would post anything bad about the UN
 
The thought occours to me...

Who are these posters really for? Why are they in English? How many Sri Lankans read English?

Shane
 
I'm pretty sure

it was made by children in a secret UN sweatshop where they also cut checks for the skimmers in the Oil for Food program. Just guesiing... :evil:
I hope there is a way to take legal action...
CT
 
I grabbed the image and ran it through something that dumps all the hidden extra fields in the image. Often that will tell who created it, etc. There was no information.

Maybe contact IANSA on this? It's tough to fight something like this. IANSA is a shadowy off-shore organization with involvement in the international arms trade, unlike the Economist which is easy to get in contact with.

But if you just call them up they might be helpful.
 
Maybe contact IANSA on this? It's tough to fight something like this. IANSA is a shadowy off-shore organization with involvement in the international arms trade, unlike the Economist which is easy to get in contact with.
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Exactly. Also their web host is one set up to host leftist causes, so they think that everything is protected by either the First Amendment or the "justness" of their causes. They routinely ignore "take down" demands.
 
"The damage that I can see is that they used my image in express violation of the copyright agreement as stated at http://www.a-human-right.com/faq.html"

I think there are intricasies with intellectual property ownership on the internet. For instance, if you are a novelist and you write a novel, and you e-mail it to your publisher, who owns the novel? Hotmail owns it. You use Hotmail, they own what you send.
 
Uck, as an artist I'd be particularly offended at my quality work being used so poorly. What a hack job. At any rate, no doubt the UN will get away with it. Still, try to give them hell and a few less dollars if you can. :D
 
Might try contacting Fox news.

They never miss a chance to kick the UN in the shin.

They would also have the knowhow/wherewithall to track down the chain of theivery involved. They're involved in intellectual property rights issues on a daily basis.

Mega publicity never hurts!
 
Sasa

As previously posted, the people responsible for this are SASA
http://www.sasa-net.org/default.htm

From the looks of things they've got a pretty cheapo website.

Here's their contact info:
Co-ordinator
South Asia Small Arms Network
C/o South Asian Partnership International
571/15 Galle Road Colombo 6, Sri Lanka
Tel : 94 1 2360908, 2500311
Fax: 5 - 514587
Email : [email protected]

Good luck getting in touch with them.

-Morgan
 
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