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Re: Has anybody seen this engine before?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:42:34 GMT
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Too bad Ben didnt copyright it. If he did he would have a case in court.
Although he could just send a nasty letter to the kid about pirating. And
note that it isnt me in there. My screen name is StarCrafter2.
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
> > "James J. Trobaugh" wrote:
> > >
> > > If I was Ben I'd be pretty pissed.
>
> > > >
> > > > http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1857/newdiesel.htm • In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > > > > http://www.lego.com/gallery/theme/vote.asp
> > > > >
> > > > > One of the entries is this engine, which looks somewhat familiar to me:
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> > Ya know, funny thing.... when I read the original post I was kinda hoping it
> > would be one of mine. I keep thinking "when is someone going to steal my • stuff."
> > I feel so left out. Apparently, my work isn't good enough to steal (pout).
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> I think that's not too funny if someone steals your pictures. In some cases
> pictures of mine have been pirated for auction purposes. I think that was even
> worse than the TLC piracy.
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> Some people asked me if I had additional nicks on eBay, because they knew about
> my pictures (I often uses the same background for lots of my pictures and
> people recognise those as mine).
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> I have been really angry about those guys, who did that: all my stuff on the
> homepage is in perfect condition and everything is fine. So the high bidder has
> to think he will get perfectly mint stuff if he bid in an auction with stolen
> pictures.
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> In one case someone auctioned "my" 7745, but he hasn't been aware that the set
> on my page showed 2 middle cars! So trouble can be predicted...
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> If I find someone to steal my pictures I will immediately force him to delete
> the pictures: if he uses even my homepage as recourse, I exchange the pictures
> against something annoying, be sure I can be creative. ;-)
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> If the person has uploaded that picture elsewhere I contact the provider and
> make them delete the picture within shortest possible time. I can be really
> agressive if my rights are harmed.
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> I think pirating pictures is not funny in any way (even if it might be
> somewhat charming). :-/
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Ben
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Has anybody seen this engine before?
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| I don't think it's a matter of copyright so much as fraud. It's not like the kid used some else's design; he actually used a photo of someone else's model and claimed it to be his own. jt (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Has anybody seen this engine before?
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| Hey Kai, I think I'll have to agree with you on this one.... I think it plain stinks that someone, even a kid would pawn something as nice as this as their own....it is your basic fraud ---> passing someone else's work as your own.... in school (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Has anybody seen this engine before?
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| (...) He did. Twice, actually, since he built it and then photographed it, and I believe should hold copyright to both the model as a piece of sculpture/art and to the photograph he took. See (URL) however, that he would have to register (for $30) (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Has anybody seen this engine before?
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| (...) stuff." (...) I think that's not too funny if someone steals your pictures. In some cases pictures of mine have been pirated for auction purposes. I think that was even worse than the TLC piracy. Some people asked me if I had additional nicks (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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