Posted by the idiot on 01/13/00 11:29

"Hywel Jenkins" <hywel.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1dbc2a9490e723779896ad@news.eclipse.net.uk...
> In article <fUOdnYx-Ybs2AszeSa8jmw@karoo.co.uk>, sinatra@thesands.co.uk
> says...
> >
> > "Luigi Donatello Asero" <jaggillarfotboll@telia.com> wrote in message
> > news:SDb4f.148408$dP1.506231@newsc.telia.net...
> > >
> > > "SpaceGirl" <NOtheSpaceGirlSPAM@subhuman.net> skrev i meddelandet
> > > news:3rcug2Fiv825U1@individual.net...
> > > > Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> > > > > Do you happen to know why Google shows this map of Italy
(ITALY.gif
> > > > > 300 x 328 pixlar - 25k)
> > > > > which is on my
> > > > > website without writing the complete adress of the source?
> > > > > http://images.google.se/images?q=karta+Italien&hl=sv
> > > > > Do you know how I can get in touch with Google for such matters?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Google indexes millions of images. The idea I suppose is that if
someone
> > > > is looking for a map, they find it via google images, get the one
from
> > > > your site. If they then want to use it for something they need to
> > > > contact you.
> > >
> > > I know that they should get in touch with me but, unfortunately, I
have
> > > already had problems with that because
> > > someone else had used it without getting in touch with me and
published a
> > > map on another website.
> > > The map has been canceled by that site after I have got in touch with
> > them.
> > >
> > >
> > do you own the rights to the italian coastline?
>
> That's irrelevant. If I take a photograph of you, I own the copyright
> to that photo even though it's of your face.
>
for sure, but more than likely you would have asked my permission.
if youd taken it without my consent then matters would be different if you
tried to use it.
anyway, did whoever originally made the map ask for permission?

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