Lucie opened this issue on Feb 11, 2009 · 29 posts
thundering1 posted Thu, 19 February 2009 at 9:42 PM
Yes, it's very loose territory - they are commercial images of watches and jewelry used in catalogs and magazines. If I REALLY wanted to get snippy about it I could, but I don't. It's mostly people selling the watch they bought and don't use, or necklace, etc.
Every once in a while it's a company that managed to get a hold of a bunch of them and are commercially selling them on ebay - and didn't pay for the rights to use the images.
Again, I actually don't really care as this is mostly small potatoes, and I don't want to start going after every person who does it. What would ACTUALLY tick me off is if anyone would claim the image as theirs - or use it in a paid advertisement in a magazine or something if they become another supplier of those items. Then I'd probably go ape over it.
But on ebay... Mostly I perk up, smile and go, "Hey! There's another one of my images!" And point to the screen as though ANYONE else would be amused about it but me (and I'm usually alone at the time... what does that say...?).
-Lew