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Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D
Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences
Smith College
Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane
Northampton, MA 01063
email: mmarcotr@smith.edu
voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744
www.smith.edu/garden
www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr
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"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with
the beauty of flowers and never succeeding."
Marc Chagall
>>> alan_galloway@ncsu.edu 06/21/04 12:58PM >>>
Peter, Denis, Steve, and others,
After seeing Peter's original posting, I checked the sites listed and
discovered that this
person was also using 2 of my photos as well. This person never asked
for
permission
and certainly did not credit me for my photos.
I notified the person Friday and again on Saturday to remove my pics.
He
finally emailed
me back with some rather unpleasant responses. I'm still amazed at
the
reactions of
thieves when you catch them in the act!
He has since removed my pictures from his web site, as well as
terminated
the auction
of his 'ebook' which contained the pics.
He has stated that he did not sell any copies of his 'ebook', but I
have no
way of verifying
that statement.
I checked his web site, as well as his ebay profile, and he seems to
have
gone to rather
extreme lengths to cover up his physical location and his name. Also
on his
ebay
profile, he goes to great lengths explaining how willing he is to
resolve
disputes. All in
all, it appears to me that he has gone to great lengths to maintain
anonymity. And his
idea of resolving disputes is pretty pathetic.
I would advise all affected to send email to this person, clearly
stating
that he has
taken your images, and for him to remove them promptly. If you plan to
file
a civil
law suit, this will show the judge, that you have taken a pro-active
measure
to defend
your copyrighted material.
See Peter's original email below for the URL for Ebay.com You'll
need to
navigate
through Ebay's site to find out where to direct your complaint for
ebay.
They need
to hear from all those affected.
The guy's personal web site (also listed below in Peter's original
message)
is actually
hosted by yahoo.com. You'll need to notify yahoo.com that this guy is
breaking
copyright laws. Once you have told yahoo.com, they become somewhat
responsible
for breaking the copyright law on behalf of this guy. From what I've
heard,
yahoo.com
takes a very dim view of its cutomers breaking copyright laws.
I'm putting together some information on copyright issues and will post
that
information
here shortly. Hopefully this will educate some uniformed people.
Alan
----- Original Message -----
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] ebay - ebook fraud
> Hello Peter & Dennis- I've never had any contact with this vendor
myself,
> but there is a lot of grumbling on the web about his having a lot
of
> unhappy customers, but still maintaining a 100% positive feedback
rating
> with eBay- ?! some sorta crazy coersion thing -like no honor among
thieves-
> Perhaps you're in a postion to file a formal complaint w/eBay to
keep
> people from being cheated? After reading your message, I can't tell
that
> there is any volume there, really nutzo-crazio-this seems to be a
classic
> case of the devil dancin' in empty pockets and will probably resolve
itself
> in short order- Have a nice week-
> Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Boyce"
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:34 PM
> Subject: [aroid-l] ebay - ebook fraud
>
>
> > Dear Folks
> >
> > Denis at Silver Krome and myself have been made aware that
> >
> >
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&itemC07898904&sspagename=STR
> K%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
> >
> > http://alocasiaaddict.com/files/EEsample.pdf
> >
> > is auctioning an ebook created by stealing information and images
from
the
> > websites of Malesiana Tropicals & Silver Krome Nursery.
> >
> > Peter (Malesiana Tropicals)
> >
> >
>
>
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