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

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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.

Not so."

Care to elaborate? I learned this not 3 years ago from a highly accredited source, teaching in his field of expertise.
 
Copyright ownership rests in the author, unless and until expressly transfered (assigned) in writing. Hotmail is neither the author nor assignee as a result of its transmitting your data.
 
You might be right, but I'd just advise caution when transferring property on the internet anyway.
 
Care to elaborate? I learned this not 3 years ago from a highly accredited source, teaching in his field of expertise.
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I assume you're referring to the Hotmail TOS which technically gives them ownership of anything sent through their service. I suspect they're a lot like non-compete employment clauses - good luck to them trying to get a court to enforce it. Highly unlikely to happen.
 
I assume you're referring to the Hotmail TOS which technically gives them ownership of anything sent through their service. I suspect they're a lot like non-compete employment clauses - good luck to them trying to get a court to enforce it. Highly unlikely to happen.
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Getting way off topic here, but funny you should use that as an example...
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I vote that we make this a sticky. If you need money for legal bills, I will give what I can. Tear them apart. Any judge with more than two brain cells will rule in you're favor.
 
Did you copyright the images? And if so, what is the damage? Because that's what legal counsel will likely ask.

Kick the UN out of the US.
 
Boss Spearman

Did you copyright the images? And if so, what is the damage? Because that's what legal counsel will likely ask.

Yes, it is in the FAQ on his site. Since Oleg Volk teaches photography for a living as well as being a photographer himself, I see real damage. Newspapers and publishers loose hundreds of thousands of $ for using pics without permission. It has happened in the past. IMHO Oleg Volk has a VERY strong case, since it is obviously a photo that HE created at his own expence.
 
Thanks for the info. I hope Mr Volk takes them to the cleaners.
 
I don't have much coming in on my retirement, but I just transferred funds from my bank account to Paypal, provide a link, and I will help you as best I can.
 
btw, hasn't Volk gotten paid for the unauthorized usage of his pictures before? I believe that it was some british magazine.
 
I heard Oleg on a replay of NRA News today & decided to see what was going on. What a surprise to hear him speaking with an accent. You would think he was born in another country...

What say you??...

He was??....

oh..... ;)

Sounded good Oleg!! Hope you call into the show more often! I hope you make those buggers pay (in one way or another).
 
Here is the InfoZone News article on this story...


International Anti-Gun Group Uses Copy-written Image Without Permission

Oleg Volk's Photo Image on Anti-gun Poster

Photographer Olek Volk takes many pictures to promote gun ownership. So when he found his work being used by the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) for an anti-gun poster in Sri-Lanka, he was a little perplexed. Volk's work has apparently been used since 2005.

Neithe IANSA, nor their Sri-Lankan group gained Volk's permission to use his image, nor did either party contact Volk for permission to use the image.

Volk is seeking legal advice on what he should do in this case.

IANSA was at the United Nations in New York for meetings on the control of small arms and light weapons (SALW).

http://www.infozonenews.com/freedom.html
 
Okay, this is a year old. Anything going on with this, or has it just stalled out?
 
Give them heck Oleg! Use the media to make them look like thieves and plagarists, but if all else fails, Sue them loudly and very publicly.
 
Oleg:

What I would do, is send them an invoice for utilizing your trade marked or copyrighted images.

Make the invoice out for about thirty million dollars.

Then, all you need do is argue the damage amount.

(Or, you could send the invoice directly to Kofi, with a memo saying if they issue payment of that invoice within fifteen days of receipt, he will get a ten percent cut?)
 
http://www.iansa.org/index.htm
It's the name on the bottom of the photo.

What a nice bunch behind it.
IANSA’s work has been supported by funders including the Governments of UK, Belgium, Sweden and Norway, as well as the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Compton Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Institute, Samuel Rubin Foundation and Christian Aid.


Edit: this should have been a reply to Oleg about the photo the UN swiped. Can this be merged in?
 
Re IANSA's "lack of success" at The UN, that might perhaps be due, in part, to the arrant pomposity of their Executive Director, Australia's gift to the world, or did they deport her, Ms. Rebecca Peters.

Have you even seen this woman perform? She is a "piece of work".
 
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