Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

[Mike Phillips]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery



A picture I took in 2002 of the swirls in a 1991 BMW
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/773/bmwcobwebswirls.jpg


Was using Google to find an image and found this,

Final Touch Detailing San Deigo CA Car Wash - Identify Your Defects (http://www.afinaltouchdetailing.com/defects)


See this article, words and pictures by yours truly...

Tracers Tracers - RIDS - Pigtails - Cobweb Swirls - Rotary Buffer Swirls - Holograms - Water Spots - Bird Drooping Etchings - Micro-Marring (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/hot-topics-frequently-asked-questions/22234-tracers-rids-pigtails-cobweb-swirls-rotary-buffer-swirls-holograms-water-spots-bird-droping-etchings-micro-marring.html)



What's funny is while they don't mind using photos off the AGO forum, if you go to pictures of their work you find this statement...


Final Touch Detailing San Deigo CA Car Wash - Photographs (http://www.afinaltouchdetailing.com/photos)


PROTECTED PROPERTY
These images are the sole property of Final Touch Detailing. No other use of these images are allowed in any format including but not limited to: Web sites, web images, hard copies, and single use prints.


It's all good, just thought it was interesting...


:)

[RTexasF]

Your article does say "Copyright ©PBMA - Autogeekonline.net® All Rights Reserved".

[BobbyG]

Your article does say "Copyright ©PBMA - Autogeekonline.net® All Rights Reserved".

This only applies if the party about to copy it is ethical and law abiding...

It's more about the odds of the owner perusing damages for copyright infringement than anything else....It's all about the odds...

[alko]

I LOVE at the top it says "*Photo's Of Our Work*" GTFOH!!!

Mike I'd be pissed if I were you...you spend lots of time putting those together and to have someone just come by and snatch up your work....SMH...pretty pathetic if you ask me.

[2old2change]

We could all call this clown and let him know the cat is out of the bag as they say. This seems to be a growing thing lately.

[alko]

The thing reads like a high school english paper...all they did was change the words around and used letters instead of numbers for certain things. They're so lame!!!

[Setec Astronomy]

We could all call this clown and let him know the cat is out of the bag as they say. This seems to be a growing thing lately.

You mean have 5 or 600 forum members call him and ask "are those pictures on your website yours? Did you take them?"

[Mike Phillips]

This only applies if the party about to copy it is ethical and law abiding...

It's more about the odds of the owner perusing damages for copyright infringement than anything else....It's all about the odds...

This kind of stuff is so far away from our A-List of action items...


Like I posted, I was looking for one of my own pictures of swirls for this article,

Let there be light... (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-expert-featuring-mike-phillips/43192-let-there-light.html)
(when inspecting the condition of your car's paint)


I try to practice giving due credit to where credit is due in all I do. I rarely see this practice by others in the forum world but the big picture is to always take the high road and let others do as they will.


:)

[Flash Gordon]

What a crock of crap

Never understood the mindset of someone who uses others pictures. It would be one thing if someone was hard up for work and needed some pictures fast, but to make the following statement:

"PROTECTED PROPERTY
These images are the sole property of Final Touch Detailing. No other use of these images are allowed in any format including but not limited to: Web sites, web images, hard copies, and single use prints."

It would piss me off enough to make an example out of him through copyright infringments. If you don't make an example out of this guy expect more to follow

[habeba86]

Id call :xyxthumbs:

[alko]

What a crock of crap


It would piss me off enough to make an example out of him through copyright infringments. If you don't make an example out of this guy expect more to follow

Flash has a point. It will get to a point where people are going to come across multiple articles and then the question is "who is the original author?!" I'm sure it can be proven but the average reader isn't going to bother with trying to research the date with which the article was written.

[6supersport7]

This is where putting you own watermark that is hard to photoshop out would be very useful. I am sure that the people that do this is to lazy to try and chop out a faint watermark and would just go on looking for a different pic to use.

[RaskyR1]

Todd Cooperider just had one of his pics stolen by Popular Mechanics! No ask for permission or even credit given for the photo....:nomore:

[Mike Phillips]

Here's the cobweb swirl shot of the BMW I took in 2002 when working for Meguiar's. This picture belongs to Meguiar's not me as I took the picture with a company camera while buffing this BMW out for the 2002 Bimmerfest.


Bumper Techs Call Today 813-846-8904 Tampa Bay (http://bumpertechs.com/tag/tampa-bay/)


Meguiar's asked me that anytime I use a picture that I took and used on the MOL forum to simply give them credit, which I do. I took over 3000 photos and uploaded them to their photo gallery, too many to not want to use for teaching purposes once in a while. But due credit where credit is due...


:)

[Flash Gordon]

Flash has a point.

:iagree: