Unauthorized use of my car pics...how to take action?
 

Some website is using my car pics to advertise a product. So how do i take action? File a police report?? I dont wanna hire a lawyer and a few extra bucks wouldnt hurt.

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UPDATE 9-29-03: MY PICTURES HAVE FINALLY BEEN REMOVED!!! THANKS EVERYBODY FOR THE RESEARCH, EMAILS, AND SUPPORT!

could you link us?
i wanna see what bastards are doing this

oh yeah, NeonImpact linked me!

http://www.streetstyler.com/01-03Civ...ipSpoilers.htm

They are also using AceKicker's car

Why don't you just email them and ask them nicely to remove the pics?

where's the fun in that?

acekicker is sponsored by them....
http://www.streetstyler.com/SponsoredCars.htm

in ur case, i dont think ur gonna get anything out of them, but you may wanna email them and let them know about it. maybe threaten them with legal action if they didnt remove them, see if you can get some free stuff....hahaha

Tell them if you are not compinsated (sp?) then you will take legal action! :)

~nick~

Bug the hell out of them and get free stuff

by the way i'm in the magnaflow site do i have to sue them too? or just ask them for free stickers in colors i don't like?

But they can remove my car's pics right away...then the proof is gone?

I dont think screen shots are considered proof.

edit: email sent asking for some compensation

well you technically could get some kind of comp but you'll probably need a lawyer to look at the site, take screen shots, and then suprise them. so they dont have time to change.

id just ask them nicely to remove it.

take a pic of your screen (monitor) with your camera

Screen shots are proof, and you have us here as witnesses. Id call up my lawyer if they wont provide any compensation, and when I mean compensation, I dont mean a discount on something either.

Screen shots taken.

Webpage saved.

and you guys are my witnesses!

we'll see if they decide to compensate me...

tell their asses u want a turbo and then its all good

hes prolly thinkin to make money out of this :_disgust:

I don't think there is enough proof. . Screen shot or not. . They can say that someone sent the pics to them claiming it was their car, apologize, and make a simple promise to remove them and that would be enough to have the case dropped in court. and there isn't much that can be done. You'd have to prove their intent, which is probably just too difficult.

Now. . A good idea is to talk to them nicely. Explain that you know your car is on their site, and you don't mind, however, in exchage for the use of your pictures you would like some kind of discount/free parts from them and some kind of acknowledgement on the site that they are your pics. . something like that. Seems like you would have a better shot doing it this way. .

Just my .02.

ahaha...all you guys want are FREE stuff! LOL

ok they replied back and told me that a customer had sent those pics.

secondly, they don't believe that those pictures are of my car!!! LMAO

What a bunch of dip-dunks...tell them to give you free stuff, or I'll punch them, and their dogs in the face!

Shat, I hate how the little guy always loses in these scenarios. We should do something! Write a petition or something! DAMN THE MAN!

well now that they are denying it I would take legal actions..fvck it..they aren't willing to work with you..so you aren't gonna work with them

Yeah, throw the book at em, get a lawyer to take a look at the site, and your car. Sue the pants off those fehgs.

post this again in "legal questions" forum! maybe someone will know what you can do.

take pics of your car, put 'em on yer computer, and photoshop the website car next to your car and send it to them (make sure you do something so they cant take the picture and say that you stole it from them, like slap your e-mail across it or something) and show that to them.. or to a lawyer..

or have a mod just move it...

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i'd be flattered, as long as they gave me credit for it.
by the way, those are good prices on skirts... i might purchase .... :D

How about you copyright your pics and then sue them for copywright infringement? hehe

doesnt that take time and money tho?

Yeah, but it's worth it to make them squirm...

moving to legal forum...


well not really, i dont have the authority :p

i don't even see your car