Seems like lower quality to me. I've long since lost the neg so I provided my friend in the city's cycling department with my 8x8 print and she scanned it.
It looks like this one is a scan of last year's poster. That would be my guess, anyway. Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Stan Halpin <[email protected]> Sent: May 23, 2012 5/23/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Another stolen photograph Well, of course they took your Porsche! You can hardly expect them to take your Yugo can you? But seriously, I would be curious to know whether this year's poster is the same or lower quality than last years. Are they maybe reusing a digital file they had from last year, treating the image as though it were clip art? Or did they scan and reproduce that way? In either case it is theft, but in the former case at least it could be attributed to ignorance. stan On May 23, 2012, at 10:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: > A couple of days ago I was walking through the lobby of an office building > when a poster caught my eye: > > http://www.photoshop.com/users/knarftheriault/assets/944fde47da3b428896c0dbe6afcfeaba > > *http://tinyurl.com/czrflwp* > > "Cool! A bike clinic for building workers and some sort of bike commute > programme. I'm down with that! > > Wait. That photo of a bike with an espresso cup and saucer in its basket > looks familiar. Why, that's because I took it!" > > The photo that I sold to The City last year to use on their 2011 Bike to Work > Day posters has been recycled (pun intended) without my permission. > > The City is not a sponsor of this event and even if they were, I sold the > photo for one use only. > > It seems that a co-sponsor of last year's event (Smart Commute) liked the > photo so much they thought they could just take it and use it for free, > without the photographer's permission. > > I guess my first step is to email my contact at City Hall to see if anyone > asked her permission to use it. Not that she could give such permission, but > if she did my beef is with her and I'll have a friendly chat about the > concept of copyright. > > If she didn't know about this I'll raise my concerns with the sponsors of > this event to see if I can get any satisfaction before taking it any further > if need be. > > On the on hand I guess it's sort of flattering. On the other, after someone > has a car stolen they don't say, "Gee, it feels kind of good that the thieves > like my Porsche Carrera 4S." > > cheers, > frank > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
