The following website is stealing Jerky's Photo Shoot!!!

Total copyright violation!!!

View this thief's site here:
http://www.shuni.com.tw/tl.htm

These are ones Jerky took

Santana Row
http://www.shuni.com.tw/images/acura...l_index-44.jpg

San leandro
http://www.shuni.com.tw/images/acura...l_index-42.jpg

Treasure island sf
http://www.shuni.com.tw/images/acura...l_index-38.jpg

Interior
http://www.shuni.com.tw/images/acura...l_index-27.jpg

 

That's messed up.

I'm in the same situation. I took photos of a TSX and the images are being used without my permission.

 

Try enforcing our laws in Taiwan.

 

When you post them ghost your name and copyright info at the bottom. Those people are claiming them as their own, which is not right.

 

it might not be right to use someones pictures as your own, but unless you have the copyrighted there is not much you can do.

 

at least u advertisin ur car

ppl can see how nice a TL can be

 

I think those other pictures were from canadiandriver.com I know they took those pictures for their article on the TL's audio system. Facked up

 

those pictures arent just jerkys, I believe some of those aree canons as well...


bullshit, once i start my car thread, I am always going to put a watermark on my car pictures

 

Does anyone know what the website is doing? are they importing cars? or are they just talking about it?

 

This site is for selling honda/acura cars. company is based in taiwan. they also services honda/acura vehicles.

This funny, found on their main page:

3.本網站所提供之專業資訊皆公開透明，歡迎各界人士下載；相關文字屬順鎰汽車智慧財產，請勿轉作商業用途。

It says that they have the "intellectual property rights" and tells others not to use it...lol

I didn't know TL is sold in taiwan...interesting. Plus, they advertise that the TL is $2,290,000 NT, which equates to about $76,000 USD...crazy prices.

 

I thought Jerky had a watermark on his photos! Maybe they were just labeled. Too bad for the unscrupulous folks out there. It is a compliment to Jerky though, he take some really nice pictures! Funny how they claim intellectual property! LOL

 

Why is everyone so pissed?

1) the picture is NOT copyrighted

2) Jerky, or whoever's pictures they are are NOT selling them for profit.

If jerky was selling these pics, and this other company took them, then I'd be pissed. He's not losing anything by this other company using his pics. Pics posted on public forums are public. Taking them is as easy as right clicking... So anybody here who has taken a pic and used it as their desktop background could be considered as guilty.

 

Incorrect; any work of art is inherently copyrighted by the author of that work at the instant of creation. You do not have to register your copyright in any way.


Also incorrect; If I take a picture and post it on a forum, I have that right as the copyright owner. You do not have the right to then take that picture and do whatever you like with it. It only becomes "public" if the copyright owner explicitly gives away rights.

Even if I let someone use my pictures with permission, for free, it doesn't prevent me from telling someone else they can't use my pictures without paying me.

See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

 

But all this is technically and legally. My point is, people are outraged because they are using someone elses photos, but isn't that the same as making a mix tape, or burning a CD. Although technically against the law, its so laughable I doubt anybody could make an arguement for it.

 

I respectfully suggest you go to a photography forum and make that assertion.

 

All I'm saying is, if I take a photo, and post it on the internet, with no disclaimer prohibiting the use of the photo, then it is my assumption that someone will eventually take that picture and post it somewhere else. If no one did that, then P2P file sharing would not exist. If however, I was selling these photos for profit, then I would be pissed if someone took it.

Are you saying that you've never right-clicked and saved a picture from a website?

 

you guys should copyright your pictures under the creative commons licence at http://creativecommons.org/ , therefore making their actions illegal.

 

I would be flattered if someone found my photos nice enough to use

 

seriously, whats the big deal. its not like the pictures were all that special to begin with, they are just point & shoot camera shots, nothing professional. if taking photos of cars were ur career (and if the shots were anything special) they u could make a legitimate case for this. if not, i would feel flattered somebody thought they good enough to post themselves.

 

Since Jerky will most likely not see this thread, I think it has run its course otherwise.