RE: Open All Hours - 49

Well I can't see anybody being in a hurry to use my piccies but can you imagine if someone made a fortune from your picture....surely that would be really annoying?

On the other hand I get enormous pleasure from sharing my pics and seeing other peoples I will not lose sleep over it.

As you all know I have collected a few photos over the years. This copyright issue really annoys the hell out of me. I cannot see what harm it does to share a few photos between friends. If you were trying the make money or make some other advantage from these photos I could understand it.

It is as Lyn says, why put these photos somewhere that they can be copied in the first place if they don't want to share them. If they had taken these photos themselves it would make some sense, but not when they are over a 100 years old. What they are trying to do is make money out of people's natural desires to know more about themselves.

What really takes the biscuit is when you see "photographer unknown copyright ********" How do you copyright something that you don't even know who owns it.

Another thing that annoys me is, some sites (not this one) if you upload a photo to it, they claim copyright of that photo. You agree to it when you become a member of the site. So always read the small print before you upload anything.

Phil

Ok Folks, gather round, I now have a limited quantity of limited edition forum badges for sale.
Designed by one of the country's top graphic designers, these badges are available now at only £2.50 each inc postage.
Get yours now before they are snapped up. This is a one time offer, so order early as demand is expected to greatly exceed supply.
Please send your orders to VM by PM in the AM.
VM

HELLO VISTORS/GUESTS WHY NOT JOIN US

Thank you Arthur Daly

VM

In that case when can I expect your cheque?

Phil

Today we had a bulky rubbish collection, thanks, apparently to the liberals or whatever it is that they are calling themselves this week.
As soon as the useless crap began to be put out last night the thieves and the magpies started circling, stealing rubbish that in some cases was truly pathetic.
I almost, but not quite, pity the poor sod that plugs in anything electrical I might have left out.

Strange then, is it not, that while this overt display of thievery is taking place out the front, all the garages and sheds around the back are being broken into. Nothing was taken though, no doubt because the simpletons responsible for all the damage are too stupid to know why they had broken into them in the first place.
It’s a genetic thing. All their ancestors were burglars, so it is no great surprise that these anthropologically deformed morons, representing years of interbreeding and stealing, who have inherited nothing in the way of intelligence simply because there was nothing to inherit, go about the only thing that their cerebellum free, underdeveloped cranial inhabiting slug will allow to pass as any sort of an instinct.
Bless ‘em.

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VM

In that case when can I expect your cheque?

Phil

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Phil, I will obviously need some time to process the orders and clear the payments, then I will have to be audited to ensure fair dealings.
I estimate payments to contractors will be generated some time during the third quarter of the next tax year and will be sent out after a further three months or 180 days, whichever seems longer.
This is about the time I would dispatch the goods to the customers who are still complaining.
For more information about this and other scams that you may wish to fall victim to, please ring the customer services number, to be found on the back of this post, and press 25.
VM