On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 12:58  PM, T Rittenhouse wrote:

> Unfortunately for them ignorance of the law is not a legal excuse. On 
> the
> other you are not going to be able to collect damages unless you can 
> show
> realistically that there is a money issue involved. If someone stole 
> your
> pic and used it for a national billboard campaign where they would 
> normally
> expect to pay a hundred thousand dollars for that use of the image. For
> something like the Ebay sellers illegal use about all you could expect 
> is a
> cease and desist order.

Except that the eBay fella stole it from a retail store that had stolen 
it.  So, the retail store is using it to sell product on the internet.  
Commercial use, big money.

-Aaron
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