Re: boats
Hey all,<br /><br />I am also aware of what JB is talking about. I work in the Commercial Graphics Art and Sign Industry. Our drawings, sketches, storyboards and manufacturing drawings and specifications are proprietary, we own them even without any type of patent or registration.<br /><br />We can and do sell them, most times when a customer accepts our proposal or just to own them to go elsewhere for manufacture or to keep our design so it wont be used elsewhere.<br /><br />And designs are stolen all the time when proposal and proposed design is provided to an unscrupulous customer and this customer takes it elsewhere for manufacture without paying for the design he has broken the law and if prosecuted can cost many times what they saved by stealing them.<br /><br />It gets real complicated when you combine two proprietary designs and included copy. For instance someone provides to you a logo and it's included into a much larger design/project. Legally this is very complicated with a lot of paperwork and releases.<br /><br />It is possible to copy, paste and publish (even small scale personal web sites) once and actually steal two or more times.<br /><br />For instance JB posts a photo of his boat he had painted and applied custom graphics on the boat. Next someone copies his post from a protected web site. How many items was it stolen, and stolen and used and reused? How many times was it illegally reproduced? It could be dozens of each. The proprietary items that were stolen; the custom boat, paint designs, copy, posting web-sites design and layout and copy. Illegal reproduction; any and all parts of all designs used in-total or any parts of any of the designs, published onto the second web-site and how many sites from there on.<br /><br />Given enough time it can become part of public domain. Thats why its extremely important to protect what you own and why professional web sites have so many legal es on every page and all the agreements (no one reads) that we just click OK or I Agree and if you do not agree you dont get in. It took awhile to get to this one when we Agreed to register to become members of this site, did we agree to not take images from this site and re-use them, I bet we did.<br /><br />So MERC16 all these posts may have saved you from this site coming after you because you used images posted to this site and more than likely you agreed not to when you joined. And another thing about these posts including my previous post responding to your original query. I hope you understand what I meant when I had asked questions about your requests and web site. No offence intended. Not meant to put you off. I have attempted to help many members with answers to their questions and that was my intention with yours.<br /><br />My questions may have been a little short and quick to the point without pleasantries like Hello Merc
and Take it easy or the regular Good Luck ;o}> I hope now you see my intentions and that I did include the levity and pleasantries on my first post on this thread.<br /><br />Well good luck, have a nice day, take it easy, best wishes, may all your children be beutiful and smart nd invent a better windows operating system, sleep well, <br /><br />
