Re: GREEN VIGNETTING Sigma DP-1

In article <906f41f5-aa67-4f6d-899d-603790c02864
@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, rander3127@xxxxxxxxx says...
-On Feb 28, 9:15 pm, TRoss <tross...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:59:26 -0800 (PST), RichA <rander3...@xxxxxxxxx>
-> wrote:
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-> >On Feb 28, 1:19 am, TRoss <tross...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-> >> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:19:06 -0800, "Mr. Strat"
->
-> >> <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-> >> >In article
-> >> ><f6f0d0a2-8ae4-4f42-af82-404d5ac2d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
-> >> >RichA <rander3...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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-> >> >> Oh! Sorry, I didn't know it was copyrighted. So if a newspaper comes
-> >> >> out in the evening, and a story was reported in a different paper
-> >> >> earlier that afternoon, that evening paper now has to cite the
-> >> >> afternoon paper? The guy who posted DIDN'T take the images.
->
-> >> >Far be it from me to defend RichA, but he didn't say that he took the
-> >> >pictures...he just posted a link, and commented on how crappy it was.
->
-> >> Rander pretty much lifted his comment from a thread on dpreview. Seehttp://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=26947193
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-> >> It's not the first time he's taken something from a DPR forum and
-> >> reposted it to Usenet without attribution.
->
-> >> TR
->
-> >I don't see any copyright on the forum posts so who cares?
->
-> You know less about copyright than you do about photography. It's a
-> common misconception that something must have a copyright notice in
-> order to be protected by copyright.
->
-> Regardless, dpreview specifially stated forum posts are owned by and
-> the opinion of the poster. I suspect this was done to reduce its
-> liability than to protect the rights of the forum posters; however, it
-> explicitly assigns ownership.
->
-> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/rules.asp?forum=1000
->
-> Legal ownership - Each message posted is owned by and the
-> opinion of the original poster. Neither dpreview.com nor its
-> owners or webmaster are legally responsible for anything posted
-> on these forums. The webmaster reserves the right to remove
-> any or all of your messages at any time and ban you if he sees fit.
->
-> Even if copyright didn't apply, you shouldn't repost someone else's
-> articles in a way that makes it look like your own. It's dishonest,
-> deceitful, and disingenuous. It reduces your already low credibility,
-> and calls to question anything you post.
->
-> TR
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-Again, as a side issue, who cares about the supposed "ownership"
-conferred by Dpreview? But the only people who could construe that it
-was mine are those too STUPID to realize it didn't originate in this
-forum from me.

ReRead the copyright laws.

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Bob Crownfield
crownfield@xxxxxxxxxxx
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