Stealing for the wiki

[Opie]

Hola at everyone.

ATTENTION!

I'm making this new, and hopefully very shortlived, thread simply to ask if anyone in here has problems with other people "stealing" and using your pics for the newly made denim wiki?

Share the goods guys

[Charlie Delta]

I'm of the opinion that it would be good to have some sort of link or credits back to the person who's jeans they are (and the one taking the pics if those are not the same).

Simply because for some people this goes beyond "just having fun" and chances are that if you totally disconnect the pictures from actually being owned by someone they will be even easier to be snatched for use in "the industry"...

My 2cnts

[Paul T]

My 2 cents: ask first.

[Charlie Delta]

^ Basically that!

[Opie]

I'm a bit late on that. I have added a few, with SuFu name included at all posts. I won't add more, i promise!

I just fear that this great idea will die before it begins if we don't push it a bit.

[cash]

^ Yea, but don't forget about the really good idea of property rights. 'Cuz that's a good one too.

[blm14]

two things:

1) Ask anyone whose photos that you can attribute ownership to, "a) Can I post your photos on the wiki? can I host them myself" and tell them "I will give you credit and mention on the page that these images are your copyright"

2) If you have images that you want to put up there but you dont know whose they are, then post them and include in any image a boilerplate disclaimer along the lines of "copyright holder unknown - if these images belong to you, please contact such and such and we will remove them"

Although there's a strong argument that anyone who posts un-watermarked images on SUFU has immediately lost control of them; people could save copies locally or host themselves somewhere. Not suggesting this is a good idea, but just putting it out there.

[sixsixtie]

I think asking cant hurt.