RE: Copyright violations (is Re: Image Stealing)

>You know what I have found that works *really* well?
>
>E-Mail.
>
>I simply send the owner of the art a message asking for their permission to
>use it (usually explaining my intentions for display, and offering a link
>to them), and 9 times out of 10,  I get permission to use the darned piece
>of art.

It also works when you find someone pilfering your work. I was 
searching for my name a few days ago in one of the search engines to 
see how many of my pages showed up and I noticed a review I had 
written was being featured on another web site. It was a review of 
the children's cartoon Mulan from a Christian viewpoint (one of the 
best reviews I've ever written). Some students from a well known 
college used it in their online article on film culture. I was 
thrilled they thought my review was good enough to use, however, 
although they had given me credit in their bibliography they 
neglected to indicate when they were quoting me verbatim and it 
appeard that they had written the review themselves which irked me no 
end.

I wrote the students and their teachers and the head of their 
department and asked them to either give me full credit or take my 
review off their web site. One of the students who formatted the 
Mulan story, wrote me the next morning and profusely apologized 
saying they threw it together quickly at the end of the last quarter 
and neglected to properly cite my work. They had the whole thing 
taken off the web site by that morning--I suspect they didn't have 
any of the sources fully credited.

Ask and ye shall receive :o)

sometimes,

Lori

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