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Thank You Nick Boalch :-)

Photography World Events/Social Commentary posted on Mar 16, 2007
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This image is the one I have been accused of copyright infringement on by another digital artist. In August 2006, while a member of another art site, I noticed that this artist had posted an image titled "Camelback". I wanted to compare the actual Camelback Mountain, so I used a photo from the Internet to do this. The faux pas I made during a knee jerk reaction is that I didn't think to include a disclaimer of ownership. I did receive permission from the owner of the image several days later, 8/21/06, and of course, felt very horrid for what I had done. What followed this incident has become a nightmare for me. I was accused of copyright infringement, banned from that site, and stalked from art site to art site by this artist and a small group of his friends. This artist and his friends have sent mass mailings out to fellow artists at many art sites, containing a link to an inflammatory website. I am posting Nick Boalch's image here to take away the power this artist feels he has over me. My life is open, I hide nothing. If anyone has questions, please send an e-mail. Both Tom and myself are more than happy to answer anything you wish to know. My thanks to Nick Boalch for giving me his kind permission to use this image in any way I want. Recently, the digital artist posted on his defaming website "If Mrs. Repasky had pulled this from one of her personal scrapbooks of all the photographs of the gorgeous mountain or from her digital archive, it would have been just another photograph posted on the web site." and "Why didn't Mrs. Repasky use one of her very own photographs of Camelback Mountain? Time surely was not of the essence to 'clarify' my work!" Sir, Mr. Broadfoot, the reason I didn't use one of my very own photographs is because I don't have any. All of the family photos from when I was a child were lost after my Mother was murdered on July 21st, 1972.

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TwoPynts

1:16PM | Fri, 16 March 2007

Not a fun sounding situation. It just goes to show what a mess copyright law can be. Better safe than sorry. Sorry to hear about the hassle this has caused you it is good to know that the artist has given you his blessing on this. There is a difference between oversight and intentional infringment, and people really need to go after those that are doing on purpose and for personal gain.

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tazda

9:05PM | Fri, 16 March 2007

yeah its just really stupid on how far people will go to.


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