
When I'm a hotshot lawyer, I'll do a pro bono case:
b3ta -v- The Daily Mail
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 12:54,
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b3ta -v- The Daily Mail

who's image is it anyway?
I know we take images from the interweb but we tend to do stuff with them like shoppery and mashing etc. but simply to take someone else's work and copyright it to their own website is soooooo wrong!
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I know we take images from the interweb but we tend to do stuff with them like shoppery and mashing etc. but simply to take someone else's work and copyright it to their own website is soooooo wrong!

we email their legal department with dire tales of how one of their images was featured prominently on b3ta.com without permission
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 12:55,
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'Just to let you know, I think www.b3ta.com are stealing the images from your hardworking staff.
I think you should do an expose on these thieves and hackers, stealing our identities.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!'
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 12:57,
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I think you should do an expose on these thieves and hackers, stealing our identities.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!'

That way the next time they do nick one of mine they're really in the shit.
Unfortunatelys the site isnonprofit so they can't use these images but I think they're in trouble claiming it as their own.
They're actually very good at paying up if one appears in the newspaper itself. Althought it still is an 'if you can't us we'll pay' not the legally required 'seen to be trying to contact the creator'.
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:08,
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Unfortunatelys the site isnonprofit so they can't use these images but I think they're in trouble claiming it as their own.
They're actually very good at paying up if one appears in the newspaper itself. Althought it still is an 'if you can't us we'll pay' not the legally required 'seen to be trying to contact the creator'.

we'd get lawyers coming after everything we owned, yet they do it as though it's their right.
Recently a person I know was billed by Getty for using three 1-inch images in a photomontage the images had already been heavily montaged and cropped for £800 each image and also to remove the montage from their website - they are currently negotiating a fair price.
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:00,
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Recently a person I know was billed by Getty for using three 1-inch images in a photomontage the images had already been heavily montaged and cropped for £800 each image and also to remove the montage from their website - they are currently negotiating a fair price.



I'm not sure you should be using that image... the sun owns it now.
pfft of all the nerve. What a bunch of stealing lie propagating cockmungers the sun cunts are.
edit : a close source told us
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:02,
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pfft of all the nerve. What a bunch of stealing lie propagating cockmungers the sun cunts are.
edit : a close source told us

prove otherwise rather than vice-versa. ;)
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:19,
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I'd draw/shop them but I'm a tad tired
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:26,
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but then I have a week's holiday so boo then yay then after a week boo again. :D
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:32,
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that's crazy! you'll spend most of your free time running around like a headless chicken, trying to do all those little last-minute christmassy things before you go back to work! unless you're going away for a week, that is.
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:35,
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watching DvDs, Playing on the 'Puter, Reading some 'puter related books, eating, sleeping, worrying about when I have to go back to work that sort of stuff. As for Christmassy stuff we don't bother much - put up the tree, send out a few cards, cook a nice Christmas dinner - turn into couch-potatoes - jobsagood'un.
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:38,
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giving everyone cards with cash in, going easy on the decorations and spending christmas day with my parents. no turkey cooking for me!
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:40,
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did you shop in the "sun justice"?
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:24,
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those vaginal batter flutes should not be allowed to use the word after the birmingham 6 or the gilford 4 etc.
they have the journalistic instinct of a bowl of rancid curd. a close source told us
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:29,
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they have the journalistic instinct of a bowl of rancid curd. a close source told us

okay, so they picked a bad name...
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:36,
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uppity cow, she was the mastermind behind uncle quentin's disappearance all along
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:48,
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I have the industry standard bapla pricing guidelines, including for image theft, if anybody wants them
BBD, Archie, Manic not least have found it quite useful, email if you want the .pdf document; email in profile, but i'm off to work right now
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:19,
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BBD, Archie, Manic not least have found it quite useful, email if you want the .pdf document; email in profile, but i'm off to work right now

Your ongoing crusade has really helped.
Keep on postin!
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:51,
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Keep on postin!

The things posted here on b3ta are for the public domain, so for it to be released elsewhere isn't technically wrong (after all, these are Internets) but to copyright an image that isn't theirs, without gaining the artist's permission is outright stealing. And let's face it, the cunts at the Sun aren't exactly doing it to make the world a happier place - they're boosting their image and profiting from the resulting higher sales (probably amongst several other money-making methods).
That really does take the piss and if I were the artist I would be seriously having some harsh words and demanding payment along with a written apology. I can't remember who made the image, but I hope they're calling up the Sun and raising merry fucking hell - I would be.
Rant over (for now).
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 14:53,
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That really does take the piss and if I were the artist I would be seriously having some harsh words and demanding payment along with a written apology. I can't remember who made the image, but I hope they're calling up the Sun and raising merry fucking hell - I would be.
Rant over (for now).

My hate for the Sun reaches new hieghts. They ran an article on urban exploration the other day, one of the things I do, and made it look like all Urbexers are hoodie wearing hooligans breaking into building sites and taking photos to gain some sort of social respect. Which we are not
Actually I'd make an exception in the case of the Suns offices.
Sorry for plugging my own site there, but the Sun has given me web-rage.
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Sat 6 Dec 2008, 15:40,
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Actually I'd make an exception in the case of the Suns offices.
Sorry for plugging my own site there, but the Sun has given me web-rage.