what do the those links have to do with anything?
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax Discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:09 AM
Subject: That old Lycos thang again.
> I think I may have gotten through to the people at Lycos WRT
> image harvesting. Check closely the address of my email, sent on
> March 4th. The reply I got today is quoted below. If anyone else
> has thumbnails sitting on Lycos still, I would be happy to
> forward URLs to these people. While the URLs he has quoted mean
> nothing to me, they are not my work, my images are no longer on
> the Lycos server in thumbnail form.
> FWIW, the gallery is now behind a robots.txt file which, in
> theory, will tell image harvesters to bugger off. I suppose if
> they decide to play by another set of rules then the situation
> may change.
> Thanks
> Bill
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Lycos multimedia
> Date:
> Sun, 04 Mar 2001 20:49:03 -0600
> From:
> Pug Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I noticed that the Lycos website says that your
> university is the copyright owner of the Lycos
> name. With this in mind, I thought I would bring
> to your attention that Lycos, and there for your
> university are in violation of international
> copyright laws. It seems to me that a university
> of all places would repect intellectual
> property.
> The Lycos Multimedia pictures website has
> harvested several images from the internet
> gallery that I maintain, converted them to
> thumbnail images is storing them on another
> server, and using them within the Lycos website.
> They are doing this without permission of the
> legal owners of the images.
> I would respectfully ask that Lycos stop this
> theft of intellectual property, and in future,
> stay within the laws governing international
> copyright, as signed by your country under the
> GATT convention.
> As the copyright owner of Lycos Multimedia,
> your university is liable for damages in the
> event of litigation over this matter.
> I thank you in advance for pulling illegally
> used images from the Lycos website.
> William Robb
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: March 13, 2001 10:35 AM
> Subject: Searching the Web (KMM7553324C0KM)
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > The images on MultiMedia Search now link off to the site in
> which they
> > come from. For example, the images which you reference in
> your letter
> > are linked off to
> http://www.swem.wm.edu/SPCOL/robb/female2.jpg
> > http://www.swem.wm.edu/SPCOL/robb/female.jpg and
> > http://www.swem.wm.edu/SPCOL/robb/cardbak.jpg
> >
> > Please let me know if these are the links you wish to remove
> from the
> > search results. The search results are coming from an
> enormous catalog
> > that is stored on our servers.
> >
> > In the future, you can prevent search engines from taking data
> from your
> > site by employing the robots.txt standard that I mentioned
> earlier.
> >
> >
> > Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
> >
> > Farah
> >
> > Lycos Customer Service
> > ----------------------
>
>
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