In the REAL WORLD of issues of abuse of copyright/s and 'ripping', it seems we are one step closer to resolving one issue that has irked for some time.
I really get a buzz out of 'kicking goals' and actually helping solve problems that concern so many of us so often.
It may be just one little battle in a never-ending war....but look after the little ones and the big ones look after themselves...
Now...thinking of some people ...OK, a particular person who believed I was the epicenter of the whole issue of copyrights and ripping and I was the problem and not the cure.....instead, I receive this tonight in my email, and my initial letter follows it.
Here I am blowing my own horn and showing that if a situation is handled well its outcome can be positive....and next time some self-important fool wants to question my motivation, well...read it and weep.
Yes, I guess I really WAS personally hurt by a person who really SHOULD have known better...
Email/s follow-------------->
Hi. I have now removed the skins from Vladimir's page on MyOpera.com.
I will contact him today and let him know why.
There are some skins called 'Fauxs' that I left on his page for now
since they were not mentioned in the list below. I hope this is ok.
Thanks for your help in sorting this out. We will keep an eye on
Vladimir to make sure that he does not upload any copyrighted skins
without the authors permission.
If Pixtudio someday create a skin for the Opera browser, we would be
very happy!
Sincerely,
Fredrik Andersson
Webmaster Opera Software
On Fri, 23 May 2003 14:20:37 +1000, Paul Martin <martinp@smart.net.au>
wrote:
> Fredrik...
> Hello again.
> I've caught up with Johanne Chaine and Renato Veras [Alexandrie and
> treetog]
> of Pixtudio.com
> and was furnished with a list wich appears to be pretty-well everything
> that
> Vladimir Tereschenko has submitted.
> My recommendation would be, as I mentioned to Lars Kleinschmidt as well,
> that all of his works probably need to be removed as I suspect not one of
> them is his or has been done by him with the appropriate consent.
> Here follows a list of works submitted by him and although some even
> quote
> or credit such people as 'treetog', etc, none has actual approval to be
> used
> or redistributed by him.
>
> Earlier communication with him [Vladimir] directly resulted in his
> erroneous
> assumption that if 'credit' were given, that would suffice.
> Naturally it does not, as the important issue is author's consent of
> copyright, and not 'credit' at all.
> So, these works, and any permutations of them, such as 'Sputnik' and
> 'Sputnik with reflections' needs to be removed until consent is sought
> and
> received.
> Note again that some of these are not just copyrighted works, but also
> actually need to be bought and are not free at all, in any sense of the
> word.
> ToonXP
> Orion
> Bomb Volter
> XPVolter FOOOD
> ToonXP with increased icons
> PixOS Icons by mormegil and Volter
> Copperdeck 11E with reflections
> Copperdeck 11V
> Sputnik
> Sputnik version with reflections
> Bomb Volter...[some of these occur more than once on the site]
> Sputnik [Icons and theme by treetog]
> XPVolter [full]
> XPVolter [short]
> These are as passed on to me by Alexandrie directly...and I have full
> confidence in their veracity.
> Both Renato [treetog] and Johanne [Alexandrie] in particular often rely
> on
> my input to communicate in problems such as this as my
> understanding/comprehension of English [the commonly-used Internet
> language]
> is better than theirs, as for them both, English is a second language,
> not a
> first.....Johanne is French-Canadian, and Renato is from Brazil.
> Unfortunately for me, the closest I ever get to a European language is
> having a Dutch wife, and French and German in school was well over 30
> years
> ago...
> I hope this information is of help to you, and is as you requested, and
> thankyou yet again for your prompt responses.
> Hopefully everything will be resolved soon.
> Yours sincerely
> Paul Martin
> JAFO
> Admin Wincustomize.com
> Admin Pixtudio.com