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What a surprise! Check this page -
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/back-to-basics-603/

That picture is from my home built pedalboard, which I made out of a suitcase! Can't believe it's published on the Gibson site without any reference to me or my website!

Original source of image : http://www.dolphinstreet.com/guitar_pedals/pedal_board/

Hey you lawyer people, can I make them give me a few Les Pauls and some amps to make it up to me? :rotflmao: haha!

It was just a fluke I found this. I was looking at Google News, searching for something new about guitars, when I spotted a thumbnail of a photo I recognized A LOT!

It's also cropped and put on this page http://www.gibson.com/en-us/lifestyle/bios/22/

Wonder what I should do... should I add a comment on that page? Or should I contact the author and ask him to reference me or my website? The risk either way is that the photo will be replaced by some other pic - I don't mind them using the picture, but I would like to be mentioned on that page, ideally with a link back to my website! :rockon:

Grrr..... :punch:

UPDATE:
The author added a comment in May 2010 - http://www.dolphinstreet.com/blog/gibson-stole-photo.php
 
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Whoa, I'd definitely be contacting them and asking how they intend to compensate you for this egregious & unauthorized misappropriation of your rightful property! With any luck, Jimi won't be the only Fretter playing a nice new Gibby LP! However, you will definitely need competent legal representation! Lemme see, do you know any good lawyers, Robert? Me neither! :rotflmao:

BTW, I'm super-pissed that they didn't steal a photo that has the ZYS in it....
 
You should make a Mac photo of the page before askin anything..
 
'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery'

At least they didn't rip into you for you choices of where each pedal resides in the chain, or anything silly like that.

Time to go put a Dolphinstreet.com watermark on all your photo's Robert.
 
Algonquin said:
At least they didn't rip into you for you choices of where each pedal resides in the chain, or anything silly like that.
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"And here we have a perfect example of how NOT to set up a pedal board. What the heck was this pitiful moron thinking??" :rotflmao: ;)
 
That's really odd - I mean, on someone's own little webpage maybe, but Gibson? You think that a. they'd have access to lots of guitar gear images, and 2. that their web designers/lawyers would be pretty sensitive to that kind of infringement
 
After you bring it to their attention they'll probably just remove the photo and there will go your claim to fame.
 
I think they need to get you and Arlen together to do a lesson for us fretters!!! what do the rest of you think.Sumi:D
 
I think you did the right thing by contacting them, Robert. You can bet, by George, that if YOU had one of their unauthorized pics posted, they'd come after you. Just ask Activision/Guitar Hero how "friendly" they are...
 
Robert said:
I have now emailed Gibson regarding this. Hope I can get some sort of reply. It not, I know how to spread the word about this "incident" online... ;)
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First of all you should feel happy about the fact (not worth a thumb down smiley, he) that they took your picture. Maybe they monitor you and did not take the picture by pure coincidence. Anyways, big companies work slow, so an answer could take some time. Are the pictures copyrighted?

Robert I cross my fingers for you that Gibson will send you something "nice" for taking the pix.

:AOK:
 
and the truly ironic thing is that you don't own a single piece of Gibson gear! Now that's funny! :D
 
Jimi75 said:
First of all you should feel happy about the fact (not worth a thumb down smiley, he) that they took your picture. Maybe they monitor you and did not take the picture by pure coincidence. Anyways, big companies work slow, so an answer could take some time. Are the pictures copyrighted?
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Under the Berne Act, copyright exists in the author of a work from the moment of the work's creation. Although registration offers some advantages, it does not create the copyright, the act of creating the work does.

Gibson stole, plain and simple.
 
Brian Krashpad said:
Under the Berne Act, copyright exists in the author of a work from the moment of the work's creation. Although registration offers some advantages, it does not create the copyright, the act of creating the work does.

Gibson stole, plain and simple.
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Thanks for the info Mr Laywer ;-)
 
Wow, you would think that they would be more careful. You're doing the right thing Robert...lets see how this turns out.
 
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Nothing from Gibson yet.

If you create a photo, music snippet, a poem, etc - no one has a right to steal that from you unless you give them specific permission. Thanks Brian, I knew I could count on some of you attorney/lawyer people!
 
Looks like a lawsuit is coming Gibson's way :munch:

May the force be with you Roberto :)
 
Brian Krashpad said:
Under the Berne Act, copyright exists in the author of a work from the moment of the work's creation. Although registration offers some advantages, it does not create the copyright, the act of creating the work does.

Gibson stole, plain and simple.
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How does Google (images) get away with it? Isn't there something to be said about having your pics on a public access website that you leave yourself open for this?
 
Read here Strummy - http://www.google.com/help/faq_images.html#copyright

The images identified by the Google Image Search service may be protected by copyrights. Although you can locate and access the images through our service, we cannot grant you any rights to use them for any purpose other than viewing them on the web. Accordingly, if you would like to use any images you have found through our service, we advise you to contact the site owner to obtain the requisite permissions.
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I had that happen on a local buy/sell network. The guy was selling a Gibson Studio, and used my picture that I was using as an avatar on the Gibson Les Paul forum. I replied to his add and told him to take my picture off the add several times and nothing happened. I eventually had to send an email to the site that the guitar in the picture was mine and was not for sale and the add was pulled.
 
Wow.............so when all of us are grabbing funny pics off the 'web and copying and pasting them here.............we could be guilty of stealing?
I guess I need to be more mindful of putting up pics of beer girls, old amph ads, weird animals and such............:confused:
 

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