Relay for Life

[CAT345C]

Your photo from the Relay for Life has gone across the country. I received it via email today from a friend I write to in Maine! If you would like a copy gimme your email address.

http://sz0127.ev.mail.comcast.net/servi ... 238804.jpg

Admin Edit...this picture link popped up a login prompt....so i made it so it won't, and it won't show anyway.

[sd70accsxt700]

I havent seen Eric on here in a while

[J T]

He's been posting on RP lately, but from the sounds of it, he's going to be away from a computer until after the first of the year.

http://forums.railpictures.net/showpost ... stcount=10

[Stitch]

Well I'm here if you mean me... Is it that CP train picture? Gads someone liked it WOW... Here is my email address spawn69@twmi.rr.com They aren't doing bad stuff with it or anything?

[LSRC]

Wait...so they just took Eric's photo without permission (it seems) and are publishing it nationwide without credit to Eric? Or did they include credit where credit belongs? I take it since it's relay for life they're not going to pay Eric, right?

[Garry K]

Is this regarding the runners crossing right in front (and I do mean *right* in front) of a CP autorack train coming around the wye in Plymouth? Yikes! That would have been interesting video to see.

Generally speaking, if someone uses your picture without permission, you can still get them to pay. I used to do a lot of sports play-by-play for public access with (then) Metrovision in Livonia back in the 1980s. I of course did it all as a volunteer, and nobody made any money off of it. One day I was watching the local cable TV and Metrovision had used some of my hockey play by play ("He scoooooooooooorrrrrrrrrreeeeeesssss!!!!") as a background to a local commercial they made for a local sporting goods company. I started taping the local commercials that came on in the programming, and when I had caught that particular commercial on tape, I went to Metrovision and demanded the standard "talent fee" (which was $25 then) for them using my voice without my permission. They said they would just put new audio in the commercial. Then I showed them the tape, and they knew they had to pay up, and they did, as they knew if I took it to court the would have to pay far more. I didn't mind putting local sports on TV for free, but if someone else was going to make a dime off of it, I wanted at least a penny of that dime!

Garry K

[CAT345C]

Let me set this whole thing straight, it was one of those chain emails, a person was browsing on RRPics and saw it so he emaild the link to a friend and now I got it after almost 500 people. I get these all the time. I have shared them with people like the ones with the first painted Pan Am units.

[J T]

Let me set this whole thing straight, it was one of those chain emails, a person was browsing on RRPics and saw it so he emaild the link to a friend and now I got it after almost 500 people. I get these all the time. I have shared them with people like the ones with the first painted Pan Am units.

Speaking RP...Eric, did you take those pictures in the 70's and 80's that you have on RP? What happened to the 90's...take a break from train photography?

[Stitch]

To be 100% honest no. I got almost all of it off ebay I give credit when I can but almost everything is blank. Now there are a few pictures that my dad took in Wayne when he worked down there. I took my first train picture in Montana back in the 80's then got back in 2003 and really took off 2005. I bought the pictures really to share them I am not going to start mass printing and selling business.

Note Anything on Railpictures.net are my pictures

As far as the CP train picture I'm glad someone could use it for something as it clearing isn't an award winning shot.

[J T]

To be 100% honest no. I got almost all of it off ebay I give credit when I can but almost everything is blank. Now there are a few pictures that my dad took in Wayne when he worked down there. I took my first train picture in Montana back in the 80's then got back in 2003 and really took off 2005. I bought the pictures really to share them I am not going to start mass printing and selling business.

Note Anything on Railpictures.net are my pictures

Ok, so all the photos from the 70's and 80's on RP were taken by you or your dad, or you got them off of ebay? I'm confused.

[Stitch]

Father yes

[J T]

Father yes

You should probably set up a seperate acct on RP for your dad's pics then, because as of now, it lists you as the photographer, which is incorrect.

[SD80MAC]

Or instead of doing all that you could just put that your father took the picture in the description. As far as I'm concerned, you/your father, same dif.

[J T]

As far as I'm concerned, you/your father, same dif.

It's misleading and incorrect. He's not the photographer, he shouldn't take credit. It's as simple as that.

[amtrak1007]

isn't copy wright law fun?

[SD80MAC]

As far as I'm concerned, you/your father, same dif.

It's misleading and incorrect. He's not the photographer, he shouldn't take credit. It's as simple as that.

I wonder how many people would actually care if he or his father took the picture. It's his dad's picture, sp it's not like he's stealing it from someone else he doesn't know. I just don't understand why it appears to be such a huge deal.

But alas, I digress, I guess stuff like that doesn't seem very important to me, certainly not something to get all up in arms about.

[AARR]

I guess stuff like that doesn't seem very important to me, certainly not something to get all up in arms about.

In this particular case it seems like a whole bunch of nothing . Maybe I'd feel differently if it were my pictures being posted without my approval or without the credit.

[Beal99]

hahah, my old man gets mad if i don't credit him!