Ducati Monster Forum

TOB sent me a newsletter.  Normally I wouldn't give a shit, but this one made me wanna post.  

I figured they wouldn't be sending me spam since I was banned immediately after we all resigned as moderators and started PMing people about the DMF.  That fact on its own wouldn't bug me except that they're using a pic of my bike in their newsletter.  Those Canadian dicks.  

(http://www.flightcycles.com/flightcycles/m1000ss/Originals/M1000SS-10.jpg)

I know it's difficult and easy for me to say, but consider it flattery...   [beer]

You could ask them to recall the newsletter, or ask for royalties, or just ask them not to use your bike's picture anymore.  I wouldn't expect anything, but sometimes it feels good being a dick.  [evil]

Yeh, give them some legalise letter!  Ask for $1 (US) for each copy they sent out.


mitt

I'll testify that I got the newsletter.


banned for life.

+1 to Mitt...

lawyer them up!

I got the letter too.  I was wondering who's bike that was.  Very nice!

Now sue  :)

your bike is sooooo sick,

if you dont mind, what plate locater is that? does it mount to the holes from the chop?
did you make it?

and what material is that that you used to make the undertail shielding? mine is allll chewed up
and i need to fab something like that up

good lookin spidey!  [thumbsup]


p.s. seat release relocate?!?! so trick!

I got it to, reported it as spam within Gmail and deleted it.

They have some taste selecting that... [popcorn]

They didn't write me :'(

That's not even the tip of the iceberg on that bike.

Did you not notice the location of the rear suspension??

and the fact that its an aluminum subframe

Wow, what a beautiful shot of your motorcycle [clap]  Now kick their ass.

You posted a pic on the internet. It's free to be used.  ;)

I'm pissed ................................................................I didn't get a letter !

Dolph       [popcorn]

haha i was trying to keep my comments to things i might be able to copycat  ;)

Who took the picture that they used of your bike?

that's a pretty liberal interpretation of copyright law. hahaha.

just like the watermark says:

http://photo.popmonkey.com/ (http://photo.popmonkey.com/)

 I dont know why I didn't see that.

The photographer might have some issues with it being used without permission. It gets tricky with it being a Canadian company thats using it. Whenever I've had issues with someone using a photo, it's always been in the states.

Hey Spidey -- nothing cool on the TOB anymore -- thus they need to use your bike to get people to look there thinking something cool might be featured!

For anyone posting pictures on the Internet, post your URL/name on them.  It will save some headaches later.  Why?  Because nothing worse than your pictures generating revenue for others without your permission.

I've seen my pictures in books, magazines, Internet and on commerce sites and used without my permission.  On most the URL was removed.  Thus why the last year I went to the large "branding logo" look as it is harder to photoshop away.

My biggest surprise was about two years ago when my personal DesmoDevil appeared on eBay.  It was all my pictures (small url removed via photoshop) and was advertised and people were bidding for it.  Username was someone in NYC.  Thanks to an enthusiast who contacted me else I might not have known about it and wouldn't have contacted eBay to contest the auction item.  Imagine the headaches if someone "won" the auction and paid for it -- and found out it was a non-existant entity for sale!

I'm surprised it doesn't happen more -- high quality pictures by enthusiasts of their Ducati's ending up on eBay or other online auctions with people trying to sell the "real item" that they don't actually own.  It happens more often then you'd realize...

After all the shit they did - f'em. 
http://www.verticalscope.com/contact/index.html (http://www.verticalscope.com/contact/index.html)
Send a note to each address saying they used your photo without permission.  Threaten lawsuit unless they compensate you. If you took the photo then you have a pretty strong legal standing - if you didn't then it's pretty weak I think.  Either way it causes them to spend time working on that instead of banning users for tell them how shitty they are.

+1


oh wait.........I have no idea what email address I created on my last handle over there since I was banned anyway

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