[Rudra Sen]

Why do you need to save pictures? If it's big enough one take print screen and go ahead.

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by tsk1979

Its not at all a protection. Watermarking is very powerful and a bold watermark across images is very very difficult to defeat.

You should read this article.

Digimarc: The Truths © 2004 KenRockwell.com

[tsk1979]

Actually I was more referring to a bold in the center of an image "LOGO" or "PROOF" type of thing, apart from the standard watermark.
Sure everything can be defeated, but your run of the mill photo copier will atmost remove some little copy right info etc., and not go for advanced techniques.

[AshOnTheRocks]

Originally Posted by tushky

please tell me about note.

Hi Tsk,

I just checked with my wife who is a practicing lawyer. Acc. to her you'll have to send a legal notice to the web master & the management of Pakwheels for infringement of your copy rights. You will have to give them a notice (within X no. of days) by which :

1. They need to withdraw the alleged pictures taken without your approval & without credits given to you & tbhp.
2. Express regret on the public forum & to you that they will verify the origin of any picture,article before publishing/web hosting it ,not repeat this act of of copyright infringement in future without prior permission & that too after giving the crdeits to the original creator.

Failing all this,you have to threaten them with legal action & damages. As the perpetrator of this act & the vehicle of infringement (*pakwheels) is in Pakistan,any legal action etc will in that country's jurisdiction & by hiring a local counsel there !! Dunno abt that country's laws on copyright infringement !! Not to worry,if it comes to that,I will be able to help there as well as I have friends & colleagues (of my organisation) & know couple of lawyers in that country.

On second thoughts,(Mods may please note & advise if it is okay ) may be we can put up a note from tbhp forum to pakwheels on this & advise them from not doing this act again & ask them for unconditional apology for the same 7 give due credit to the originators. If a legally vetted & worded notice is required,I will be happy to do the needful.

Thanks & Regards
Ash

[BUSA]

There are pics of Members cars there too.

Now i understand why there are so many forums which dont let you read the content till you are registered.

[Vid6639]

hmm Interesting. What if no images were to load for non members. Only members can see pics and click on links.

[tushky]

i have already sent notice to pakwheels. com. but still no reply from them. after fre days i will do it again. thanks friend for you huge support.

[tushky]

we should send them one friendly notice from tbhp. afterall they are using many pictures from Tbhp.

[tushky]

i think pakwheels is working on these 2 forums. coz only these 2 forums are not opening.

[khanak]

Originally Posted by vid6639

hmm Interesting. What if no images were to load for non members. Only members can see pics and click on links.

the member on pakwheels.com whos taken the images from team-bhp is also a member here so i dont see that solving the problem.

[elf]

My advice to you tushky? Let it go this time.

Seems like there's very little you can do practically. It would take considerable financial & legal resources to get them.

Just a warning for everybody now posting images on the forum - Watermark all images in the future.

[tushky]

just got a mail from PakWheels.com - Complete guide to automobile industry in Pakistan, Sports, Wallpapers, Classifieds or discussions on cars.

Hi,
Your pictures have been removed, and nickatnite has been warned. In
future
if you see any more pictures do let us know.
Regards
Admin

[wolfinstein]

Great going...!

But Now we should Identify all the pictures on that site from Team-BHP and update the Moderators of PakWheels accordingly..!

[Rehaan]

Originally Posted by wolfinstein

But Now we should Identify all the pictures on that site from Team-BHP and update the Moderators of PakWheels accordingly..!

No....
Those pictures might have been posted on TBHP and pakwheels by the same person who took the picture (and therefore has rights to the copyright).

There is no need to cause unnecessary issues unless the owner of the copyright itself actually has an issue that he/she comes forward with.

As mentioned in the Suggestions thread, we are working on a way to make this a LOT harder to do, and hence, hopefully these sort of occurences wont happen any more.

Hi,
Your pictures have been removed, and nickatnite has been warned. In
future
if you see any more pictures do let us know.
Regards
Admin

Great.
Lets consider this issue resolved

cya
R

[iamahunter]

India Times Article "10 Haunted Road Routes To Avoid If You're Scared Of The Paranormal" has an image of my car clicked by me.
Here's the link to the article.

Check the No. 5.Marve & Madh Island Road


The source image seems to be taken from my social networking page.

I was shocked to see the image used in the article.

The water mark is clearly visible on the image uploaded to the social networking page, where as its cropped in the article.

I had also put this image on team-bhp in here.

How can people just steal someone else's images without even informing!
What can be done in cases like this?