Original photo taken by me: http://www.synthfool.com/yondermoog.jpg
Photo reversed and edited:
http://ces.studio-nagran.pl/modules/content/index.php?id=3&lang=english
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af5X51ofVNk
Is it so hard to ask to obtain permission when one uses another’s work for their “art” or profit-making venture?
At least they credit you:
Cover designed by yeske (all the pictures found on the Internet)
If someone wants to track the photographer down, all they need to do is go on the Internet.
Have you sent them an invoice?
Unfortunately that is the one synthfool pic I see a lot of on the net.
Well it is a fabulous picture. Perhaps you can write
“I stole this picture from Kevin Lightner” on your pictures and then it will appear all over everywhere.
Eric
Or put a disclaimer on your website and start suing people for using your imagrey for profit. You’d win.
Agreeing to enter this site means that you agree not to use these images without permission or face extremel mutilation.
And then there are hypocrites like matrixsynth who grabs piles of photos from ebay and from Kevin without asking and puts a disclaimer on his blogs that photos may not be used without his permission.
Watermark your photos.
Not to mention videos too. I even found myself on his Blog.
the other link is down… it’s no more.
But… Kevin, your photo is FANTASTIC!!! If I ever got to see a modular Moog like that in real life I’d freak out.
the other link is down… it’s no more.
Yeah. I decided to write a client friend who also happens to be a Google lawyer.
He was very helpful.
But… Kevin, your photo is FANTASTIC!!! If I ever got to see a modular Moog like that in real life I’d freak out
Thank you very much!
I wish I still freaked out when I see these synths.
Now all I see is food on the table and a lot of work to do.
Lately, more of the latter.
But I am very happy someone appreciates whatever it is I do and thank you for your kind words.
Tell me about it! I’ve made a couple of free refills for the Reason community and then some guy ripped my and other peoples patches from various free refills and put them all into his own big package without asking permission or even giving credit. I managed to track down the different sites where he had posted and got the various admins to remove the refills.
He haden’t even bothered renaming files or folders from the various refills he had taken from, just put them all inside and said it was ‘his’ refill. Some people you know…
Kevin, this is me - Jarek aka “yeske” from the Polish forum “Studio Nagrań”.
As you know, we run the project called “Contemporary Electronic Soundscapes”. Our project is active for about three years. This is non-commercial, non-profit project intended only to promote Polish electronic music as well as for new listener’s musical education. This is also a peculiar game whithin the artists - all they have to artistically interpret the same album subject given. There is no money within the project at all - no one pays money for anything, no one earns money (only I pay my time to organize everything and to maintain the project website). Everything is available completely for free.
I realized that the picture used for front cover art of “Homage to Bob Moog” is your property.
I’ve found this picture some three years ago somewhere on the Internet, but this was not your own webpage, as I can remember. There was no copyright information neither on that website, on the picture itself nor in the EXIF fields inside the JPEG file. Even today you can find the same picture on several sites with no copyright information at all.
I’m very sorry for this situation. Your picture was used in good faith, not to make any profit.
Once I know that you own this incredible photograph, I’m asking you for your permission to continue using it. If you decide not to permit that, I will completely remove it from the project. But we would be honoured, if you would be so kind to permit keeping it as is, with appropriate copyright information.
Of course, I’ve currently blocked the project website to avoid its further availability. After I enter the appropriate changes, the site will be back online.
Again, I’m very sorry for this situation.
Jarek
Copyleft, fair-use, etc.. but its a good faith request.
I usually don’t have a problem with things if they’d just ask.
Kevin,
I understand your silence as permission to use the photo with no limits.
Thanks
Jarek
I would not make such rash decisions if I were you.
Typically without permission you aren’t legally using his picture without his permission. But one thing you have done: We all know now that you know the picture is owned by Kevin Lightner. Your continued use of it without his permission is knowingly infringing on the copyrights of it.
Jarek, did you try a PM (private message)?
Or you could email him directly, you can find that through the forum or his “synthfool” website.
That is EXACTLY what Kevin is talking about in this thread!
How can you take his SILENCE as permission?? Permission would be a written or oral agreement between you and Kevin to use his photographs. Maybe he hasn’t seen your post. Maybe he doesn’t feel like answering your post. But not answering is NOT permission by omission.
If I told you that I was going to start dating your girlfriend (or wife) and you decided to (justifiably) ignore me, does that give me permission to start bird dogging your girl?
The logic in your quote above makes no sense!!
I understand your silence as permission to use the photo with no limits.
Thewaag and MC are completely correct, Yeske.
Don’t make assumptions about me that somehow give you your own self-declared rights.
You just showed that your previous apology was insincere.
All I had to do was wait.
Because like success, failure can’t help but be noticed sooner or later.
Kevin,
This was just to get any word from you, to break your long silence.
Be sure - we really DO NOT need your photograph any longer. So, we’ve completely removed it from the album cover art. It won’t appear neither anywhere on the CES project site nor inside the (repacked) distribution music files freely available to download. The site will open again shortly.
Thanks for your kind response.
Best Wishes from Poland
Jarek
P.S. Kevin is ignoring PM’s…
