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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dayriser, post: 881143, member: 21610&quot;]<b>My apologies to everyone on this site...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I was not aware of how serious copyright law could be, so as soon as I read this post, I went to facebook and untagged any photos that I had tagged for others to see...&nbsp; I deleted all the coin pictures I had, since I am sure either the original sculptors, or atleast the mint must have a copyright on these images...&nbsp; I also called all my family members and friends and asked them if it was okay to keep the likenesses of them that I had in my family photo albums since I didn&#039;t have the expressed written consent from each of them...&nbsp; I am embarrassed to admit that I also had a recording of yesterday&#039;s Braves game waiting for me at home so that I could watch it later, but I deleted it without watching it since I didn&#039;t have permission from MLB... Anyway, I hope you guys won&#039;t be too hard on me for my sins... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Seriously though, your image is protected the moment you make it, but you can&#039;t file suit for infringement unless you register your copyright of the picture in question... So you should get on that... Also, you posted your picture to a public forum so you gave up some of your rights there, though that is all still very gray in the eyes of the courts... His use of your picture for commercial gain, albeit $2, would likely cause a court to side in your favor, however...&nbsp; But more to the point, why do you really care?.. I believe that the guy just didn&#039;t have a camera and used a photo that he was able to find, and figured the owner of the picture would not care since it was posted on the internet for the entire world to see... It is not like he posted a picture of a one-of-a-kind item and them claimed to own it personally for the sake of reselling it... No doubt, it looked close enough to the coin he WAS selling that he felt like he wasn&#039;t misrepresenting the merchandise... If he had pulled a picture of an ms66 example from somewhere, it might be different but he just pulled some random pic of a common coin in mediocre condition... Clearly there is some over-reaction going on here... And by the way, it is perfectly acceptable under ebay policy to use a stock photo but they recommend you use an actual photo of an item if it is flawed in some way... It is not fraud to show a &#039;representation&#039; of an item you are selling as long as it is a fair representation of the item, and the picture is not copyrighted... So it wasn&#039;t fraudulent in that way... So what we are down to is a minor infraction of copyright law, on a coin that you don&#039;t have a registered copyright for, which you probably would have given him permission to use anyway if he had asked... Sounds like a petty complaint to me... Give the guy a break and let him make his $2.00... He might need some similac for the kids, and do you want to be the one costing the man his living... A simple message to him on the ebay system reminding him that permission is required to use your photo would have been MORE than sufficient... Calling the man &#039;lazy&#039;, &#039;dishonest&#039;, and &#039;a criminal&#039; is pretty harsh...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And by the way, how do we go about selling a book, or a record album, or a cd, or any other such thing on ebay anyway?.. These all have cover art that is copyrighted... Do we always go to the publishers of the artwork and get permission first?.. Really?..</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>B[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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