The whole story goes about the unauthorised use of one of my pictures
below the reply of the gent from Martime Bulletin,, and more below my reply again
Pretty brazen, to blame the copyright holder !!!!
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We're taking news! Your e-mail is unavailable for visitors, maybe it's accesible for members, I don't know. Your photos were actually, anonymous - I dig around and my guess is, you're the captain of UBC Sacramento, but one has to dig around to find it. I compared the log of vessel's calls with your pics, and figured you're working on that bulker. You should sign your photos so that it will be understood that it's yours, with short description which will leave no doubt as to who the author of the photos is, and the circumstances of the pics, especially disaster pics. Also, you should give more info on yourself in your profile, including e-mail, if you want to be asked for persmission. You should state in your profile and in descpirtion of your photos, that any copy is strictly prohibited, of any size, whether with link to you or without. I repeat my advise - make a draft of watermark in Photoshop or whatever graphic editor you use, and lay it on all your photos, you'll have no problems then. It's very simply and effective. Anyone wanting a clear photo? Let him contact you, providing of course you reveal your contacts. Me, I would publish photos with your watermark and copyright and whatever, with pleasure, believe me or not. Be it otherwise, I'd simply rip off all pics full-scale, and publish them without linking to you. Be I putin-style, I'd do exactly that.
Frankly, I published that pic out of some kind of fear, I didn't know who took pic, where and when, those photos could have been old ones, as it sometimes happens. There were no confirmations of the accident from other sources yet, I re-posted smaller size pic as a proof and linked to you and shipspotting in case photos and info were mistakenly dated. If I have confirmed information from other sources by that time, I wouldn't publish any pic at all, I'd just send all curious to shipspotting, what I usually do on such occasions. That was the second time I took any pic at all from shpispotting during at least 4 years, and I believe, the last one. No more.
So before criticizing me, you'd better check yourself if there's anything you may blame yourself for, too. By the way, are there many free-for-all websites publishing maritime accidents info, such as mine? Quite a number of non-russian, not putin-style media sites shamelessly use my info without linking it to me, among them for example, Maritime Executive. So what? **** them, I'm working not for them but for the community.
Best regards and safe voyages,
Voytenko Mikhail
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good day
you really want to blame the copyrightholder that his picture is pirated by you or
for that matter by anyone ? That.s pretty brazen
first of all in my captainted profile is clearly my other e-mail where anyone can contact me
if they want to do so.
secondly much more importantly
Your advise on draft or watermark,,, what changes that in respect of the copyright
you mentioned by yourself as "a member of shipspotting" and therefore
you knew it is copyrighted,, all the pics there are. However 99% of those guys give
with no problems the ok unless it is used for commercial purposes
The NO usually comes then when peoples like you take it with no authorisation and
playing then innocent and even want to tell us on that site then how to do it.
It,s very simple,,, if you don,t have the ok from the copyright holder
don,t publish it !!! That EASY
