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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 2831860, member: 20480&quot;]A good example of this is my avatar.&nbsp; It is my business imagery, used on my business cards, and on the homepage of my website.&nbsp; In addition to the creative effort, I made a significant investment in time and money to coordinate that photo:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>It took time to develop a vision of the atmosphere / message I wanted to convey <br /> </li> <li>It took time to coordinate all of the elements to produce the end result.</li> <li>I had to pay the photographer</li> <li>I had to pay the &quot;model&quot; (notice I didn&#039;t use my likeness for security reasons)<br /> </li> <li>I shopped for and purchased many of the staging materials for the photo</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>For someone else to use that image without my permission is theft.&nbsp; Fortunately, I have not run across anyone using it.</p><p><br /></p><p>While we&#039;re on the subject of infringement, I did once have to shut down an opportunistic unnamed coin dealer&#039;s website. </p><p><br /></p><p>He learned of my business name while watching the table of a prominent dealer at the FUN Show, and accepted my business card in order to pass on my message.&nbsp; Evidently, he liked the name of the business well enough, didn&#039;t realize that it was trademarked, and erected a website . . . <a href="http://www.toughcoins.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.toughcoins.com" rel="nofollow">www.toughcoins.com</a> before mine was launched. </p><p><br /></p><p>I discovered that site a couple of months after he launched it, promptly contacted him and let him know of the issue, and he shut the site down without argument, even though my site was not yet on-line . . . he understood the confusion and potential damage that could be done to my business.&nbsp; Kudos to him for being cooperative . . .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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