Fyrene opened this issue on Jun 05, 2003 ยท 164 posts
BeatYourSoul posted Fri, 06 June 2003 at 1:34 AM
I say flood ValueWeb with complaints of copyright infringement - considering the number of infringements, make the point clear. That'll kick them into gear to do something. If that fails, a lawyer's notice of class-action suit would put a fire under them to move hastily. This point has been made ad nauseum, but signing or watermarking your images would go a long way to protecting your work. If I remember copyrights correctly, although minimally recognized as "properly" copyrighted material, signatures on artwork do have some amount of validation. Unless you can digitally sign the image file itself (a key or author field in the header), this is the best defense against this unpermissed misuse of images. BYS