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Do you think it is okay to run an Ebay ad using someone else's screen shots to represent your print without acquiring permission from that person. The ad in question posted this in the description - "The photo's are taken from this very DERANN release of this print!"

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Nope.

I've followed the series of posts you are referring to. Permission to use the photos is only part of the story. On reading the original Ebay description it would be natural to conclude the screen shots were from the actual print for sale. The text was altered only after the the proper 'owner' of the photos made his comments. Whether the description would have been altered anyway is something we will never know, but with $900 + asking price, a little more transparency wouldn't have gone amiss.

Mal, I wholeheartedly agree. At that price, one should get the real magilla. I also do not understand the spouse doing the selling??

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I do not think it is acceptable without permission.

In ebay's guide lines it states that the practice is not allowed... as if they would really enforce the rule...that is a different story.

Seller Doctor3-D was using my images for some snipes that he clearly lifted from my website because he was too lazy to scan his own pictures. He was selling snipes which he purchased from Derek before I purchased the negatives from Derek. Now, most if my images have been altered so no one will bother to lift & use them. I spent countless hours scanning & cropping not to care when a lazy bastard wants to take a short cut. I have had people re-sell items they got from me and asked if it was OK to use images...when they showed that respect, I had no problem letting them use the images.

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Wayne, I believe you can paste some "no copy" code into you website. I think the problem was the original wording which was ambiguous. Well, not the word "ambiguous", but you know what I mean or am I being ambiguous. I'm not sure. What the heck was I talking about.

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I agree with Mal.
In this particular case, one was lead to believe that these shots were from the print being auctioned.
I'm just saying if it were me I would've felt it necessary to clearly state that this was not the case.

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Mike, that is because you are ethical.

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Or perhaps just overly sensitive.

There are more than enough underhand collectors hiding in plain sight. One can grow mistrustful.

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I the seller in question is very petty and and infrequent with his improprieties. Selling under the guise of his spouse I find disturbing, especially when he has a semi established account in his name already.

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