Dieselman
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Are you sure it wasn't yours.
This item is used and in Silver. There are some rust patches
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Dr-Nab
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It's kind of complimentary, though I do use pictures of my own car to sell the bits I've done to it now since I get messages and emails about the spoiler, diffuser, mirrors and exhaust it makes sense to get more made up and sold on though I don't advertise on ebay.
I have every intention of doing that at some stage along with the other bits for other models and manufacturers besides MB so having some tool using my pictures might cause the odd issue for potential buyers getting confused etc..
I guess if they wanted to continue to use them then they could at least throw in some decent freebies because I can get those grilles for a fraction of what they are selling them at now.. but I'd doubt they will be selling the badgeless carbon fibre "EV12" style grilles that I'll have in a few weeks.
I have every intention of doing that at some stage along with the other bits for other models and manufacturers besides MB so having some tool using my pictures might cause the odd issue for potential buyers getting confused etc..
I guess if they wanted to continue to use them then they could at least throw in some decent freebies because I can get those grilles for a fraction of what they are selling them at now.. but I'd doubt they will be selling the badgeless carbon fibre "EV12" style grilles that I'll have in a few weeks.
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Dr-Nab, take a print screen shot of the pages and the images, and then save to your hard drive. etc
Then send a bill of £50/day for unauthorised use from date of letter, and then offer a one off royalty of £625 to keep using it and to stop fees spiralling for them etc..
thats what i have done in the past, and it generally works well.
i have draft letters of a legal claim, and basically, they have worked in the past for me if you want to go down this route.
But dont send too much info about yourself on ebay, as you need to come by professional etc.
Then send a bill of £50/day for unauthorised use from date of letter, and then offer a one off royalty of £625 to keep using it and to stop fees spiralling for them etc..
thats what i have done in the past, and it generally works well.
i have draft letters of a legal claim, and basically, they have worked in the past for me if you want to go down this route.
But dont send too much info about yourself on ebay, as you need to come by professional etc.
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My understanding is the copyright stays with the person who took the picture unless you sign your rights away.
The ebay ad has been viewed 212 times so that's 212 copyright infringements.
Why don't you just ask him to remove the image if it bothers you?
The ebay ad has been viewed 212 times so that's 212 copyright infringements.
Why don't you just ask him to remove the image if it bothers you?
A friend was selling an original Beatles yellow submarine album and copied and pasted the details from another old ebay ad. After 3 days ebay removed his ad as the guy who posted the original one objected and ebay took the listing down, he still had to pay. He was really pi**ed at this and when he googled the ad the other guy had actually lifted it verbatim from a New York antique store!
Dieselman
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I had someone plagiarise a picture of my house on someone else's website. It was my picture which I had allowed access to for a specific reason, not for it to be passed on or used generally.
Soon sorted.
Soon sorted.
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Dr-Nab
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I'm not fussed about the pictures being in the public domain - I posted them on forums so it would be stupid to kick up a fuss about that, but at the same time I don't see why someone else should use my pictures of my car to sell their own stuff..
Fair enough if they'd have asked I'd probably have let them but at the end of the day there's loads of people who are running those grilles on their 207-E's so they could use anyone elses.. which they may well do after a few messages to them but I haven't seen many people that actually have the grille that they're advertising.. other than companies like Mec-Design, they can't rip those pictures off (but probably would try..) think there's only one guy who's running the chrome/black grille and it isn't that flattering.
I found a link on the bay that has a form you fill out and fax.. yes fax (!!!) it to them and they deal with it copyright/IP infringement thereafter, I'll give The Boss' advice a shot as well, sure they will love that!
I remember once when I was selling a phone on ebay years ago another advert appeared that had ripped my advert down to all the pictures (hadn't watermarked them or anything) so I reported it and the other ad got taken down.
Fair enough if they'd have asked I'd probably have let them but at the end of the day there's loads of people who are running those grilles on their 207-E's so they could use anyone elses.. which they may well do after a few messages to them but I haven't seen many people that actually have the grille that they're advertising.. other than companies like Mec-Design, they can't rip those pictures off (but probably would try..) think there's only one guy who's running the chrome/black grille and it isn't that flattering.
I found a link on the bay that has a form you fill out and fax.. yes fax (!!!) it to them and they deal with it copyright/IP infringement thereafter, I'll give The Boss' advice a shot as well, sure they will love that!
I remember once when I was selling a phone on ebay years ago another advert appeared that had ripped my advert down to all the pictures (hadn't watermarked them or anything) so I reported it and the other ad got taken down.
I get them made up by a guy I know, then we sell them off - just finished the new designs, moulds and first batch for the facelift C204 Saloon/Coupe diffusers in carbon fibre so can now switch back to the C207 stuff, can't go in to too much detail on here because it breaches the rules for unauthorised advertisingSavMan said:
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Whilst I sympathise with the annoyance, does anyone actually put pictures on the internet believing they can't or won't be copied or used elsewhere? A © symbol may deter some people from public usage, but don't you sign your rights away when you sign up to sites like Photobucket (where it could also have been sourced from), Facebook etc anyway?
