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From:
Erkki Rautio
To:
anAlFiXation
Date:
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:08:19 +0300 (EET DST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) robbery.
Msg-Id:
<199707301308.QAA10266@vuokko.uta.fi>
Mbox:
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Gonzi wrote:
quoted 9 lines Why some people deciede to do things is absoltuely beyond me. I received> Why some people deciede to do things is absoltuely beyond me. I received > an e-mail today from Multsanta letting me know that someone had ripped > off my discography from the Squarepusher page and placed it on his own > site. Not a big deal, there are 3 other sites that are using my > discography formatted differently and with proper credit and linkage. > However, this guy has gone totally over the fucking edge. Not only has > he ripped off my HTML exactly and all my gaphics but he has given me no > credit for my work and instead credited it to himself! He doesn't even > include one mention of me or a link to my page.
Hmm, this reminds me of when Sony Techno in Japan used the Jimi Tenor disco- graphy (http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/tenor.html) compiled by me on their Web page (http://www.sme.co.jp:80/Music/Info/SonyTechno/featureE/9703/disco.html) + also the record sleeve images I had received from my mate Samu Mielonen. OK, this guy representing Sony wrote to me afterwards to ask the permission (note: after they had already put the discog to their page), and I didn't know what to do except say to yes, since I just thought it's great if it can give more international coverage to Jimi, being a local Finnish artist who I want to naturally support any way I can. Later I got some second thoughts about this thing, though. I was honoured but I only wish they would have just credited me there or linked my page, not to even talk about paying me for my efforts... (As they say, I'm not greedy but it's just a question of principle... ;) In your case, Gonzi, we are talking about another private individual ripping off your page, but Sony is a goddamn multinational corporation, for fuck's sake! I've given this thing a bit thought lately, and I don't really know what I ought to do. (Of course, I'm not the guy to cast the first rock with what comes to copyrights, but at least I just maintain my page as a fan only; I don't do business or gain any commercial profit from pHinnWeb, if I can say anything for my defense - read: http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/copyright.html.) Good luck, Gonzi, and hope you'll get the right to what justifiably belongs to you.
quoted 6 lines / ,-,_)> / ,-,_) > /,_) > (/ ReSH > Live & Direct from the G-Spot, > Orange County, California, USA > http://www1.linkonline.net/fresh/
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