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Subject: 
Re: Stealing Brickshelf MOC's
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 15 May 2002 05:43:00 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Joseph Williams writes:
> In lugnet.general, James Brown writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Tim Tosino writes:
> > > Recently two of the Vancouver Lego Club members have had images of their
> > > MOC's taken from their own galleries, and uploaded with no credit to
> > > someone's personal gallery. Why specifically two members of the VLC have
> > > been selected I don't know. As a third party watching the reaction from my
> > > fellow local AFOL's, I know I would be upset if someone took a whole gallery
> > > of mine and uploaded it to their personal collection on brickshelf. I won't
> > > name the parties involved, but if you look in the brickshelf recent galery
> > > it's pretty obvious.
> > 
> > Well, a couple thoughts here; first, there may be a completely innocent
> > reason; the most obvious one I can think of is ignorance.  I've found that
> > at least half the time something like this gets done; especially on the net,
> > the "offender" isn't aware they are doing anything wrong.
> > 
> > Secondly; please be specific.  Brickshelf gets enough new content routinely
> > that looking in the recent gallery will be fairly uninformative by tomorrow
> > morning.
> > 
> > $0.02
> > 
> > James
> 
> Someone else seems to have had a problem with this whole situation too. The
> gallery in question is no where to be found and the accusational images the
> 2 VLC people posted ( rightly so imho )are erased as well. I agree that it
> was a misunderstanding about ownership and this was someone's collection of
> images they like, not so much they were claiming authorship. * hides his
> teragigs of downloaded lego piccies *

Unfortunately, by uploading they are claiming ownership, according to the
disclaimer, unless they clearly state otherwise.

"All Gallery content is property of the uploader, unless otherwise stated"

I also keep many pictures from other peoples' galleries on my own HD, but I
would never (knowingly) upload them to any public site without their
permission.

ROSCO



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  Re: Stealing Brickshelf MOC's
 
(...) Someone else seems to have had a problem with this whole situation too. The gallery in question is no where to be found and the accusational images the 2 VLC people posted ( rightly so imho )are erased as well. I agree that it was a (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.general)

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