Anyone ever use your images without permission?

[Zach Wheat]

I started cataloguing a lot of card images without regard to where I got the images. At this time I had only intended to use the images for my personal use - i.e. reference. Now I wish I had paid better attention to which sites I got the images from in the event I want to use them for other purposes.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

I started cataloguing a lot of card images without regard to where I got the images. At this time I had only intended to use the images for my personal use - i.e. reference. Now I wish I had paid better attention to which sites I got the images from in the event I want to use them for other purposes.

I've done the same thing Zach. I think the difference here is that Dan's images were used for a quasi-commercial activity, but a public municipality. That's the part that would frost me. He did the work. You have to scour the site to find the credit. They stand to make the money (or raise the money.)

[FrankWakefield]

Dean, either you misunderstood what that attorney said, or he mistakenly advised you as to the law. What you have posted there is not correct.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Dean, either you misunderstood what that attorney said, or he mistakenly advised you as to the law. What you have posted there is not correct.

Frank,

What is the correct interpretation? Thanks.

[egbeachley]

I think Dean may have written it wrong. Placing an item on the internet does not mean the copyright becomes public domain.

But a non-copyrighted image can be used by others, or something of that effect.

[slidekellyslide]

I'm not even sure how they knew my name to attribute the images to in the first place because it's not on my Photobucket account. The only thing I can think of is they contacted the local minor league club (Lincoln Saltdogs) and asked for old images of Lincoln baseball...The Saltdogs contacted me last year through the American Association forum and I gave them the link to my photobucket...they may have passed that info on to the city??

And again, I would have let them use anything they wanted..it was just a bit of a shock to run across a website I didn't even know about where 90% of the images are mine.

[Bridwell]

I hesitate to post images on this forum, because of potential use on other sites. One issue is that a rare item seems more common if everybody has seen it a few times. You might think there are several out there when it is virtually one-of-a-kind. If you ever decide to sell, the item might sell for a lot less.