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<p>[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 1959913, member: 36248"]This is kinda off topic, but I'll wade in one more time:</p><p><br /></p><p>Dude, YOU don't own the coin anymore once you sell it. Why do you care if the OWNER of the coin uses the photos, or burns them, or shreds them, or prints them off to hang on the wall, or resell them at a later date? I can see why you would not want random internet people stealing your pics to use in their own logos / marketing, as that has happened to members here before, and I agree that is not cool. But what you are talking about is that it annoys you that the person who possesses the coin, and paid you money for the coin, is using images you took. Again, why would it bother you that your customers are getting some value-added from your nice images? Maybe stop using such great photos and the coin owner wont want to steal them from you. You ever think you would sell more coins if you didn't have such a strange policy about the photo use?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Bad analogy follows:</i></p><p>It's like one of those horror stories I hear when someone with a nice camera and some basic photography skills tries to get photo prints of their own kids at Walmart, and the employee says, "these are too good, you must have stolen these family photos from a professional portrait photographer, you can't print those here." It's just asinine... They are my kids![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 1959913, member: 36248"]This is kinda off topic, but I'll wade in one more time: Dude, YOU don't own the coin anymore once you sell it. Why do you care if the OWNER of the coin uses the photos, or burns them, or shreds them, or prints them off to hang on the wall, or resell them at a later date? I can see why you would not want random internet people stealing your pics to use in their own logos / marketing, as that has happened to members here before, and I agree that is not cool. But what you are talking about is that it annoys you that the person who possesses the coin, and paid you money for the coin, is using images you took. Again, why would it bother you that your customers are getting some value-added from your nice images? Maybe stop using such great photos and the coin owner wont want to steal them from you. You ever think you would sell more coins if you didn't have such a strange policy about the photo use? [I]Bad analogy follows:[/I] It's like one of those horror stories I hear when someone with a nice camera and some basic photography skills tries to get photo prints of their own kids at Walmart, and the employee says, "these are too good, you must have stolen these family photos from a professional portrait photographer, you can't print those here." It's just asinine... They are my kids![/QUOTE]
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