Wow.
Talk about right place, right time.:-)
Makes my problem with kids stealing my thumbnails and putting them on
webshots,seem minor.
Dave
> Just to keep your minds off politics .-)
>
> During my holiday I was reading and listening to music but had the TV
>
> on (and sound off), just in case there was a weather forecast.
>
> Suddenly something known caught my attention on the TV. In a program
>
> about some opera seminar in western Norway a singer was standing in
>
> front of a painting, and the painting was identical to one of my
>
> photographs.
>
> After some detective work, and help from the Norwegian community at
>
> www.foto.no, I found the painter, and he admitted that he had
>
> downloaded my picture and used it, but he refused to take the picture
>
> down and claimed that he was a not a very good painter and therefore
>
> his painting was not a copy of my picture. He said that he would
>
> sell it if someone wanted it and that I could by it if I wanted to.
>
> Now the story has been twice in the local radio station and will be
>
> in the local newspaper tomorrow. But since I live in a different part
>
> of the country I have only seen the references on Internet. One of
>
> the leading professors in Copyright issues in Norway has stated that
>
> the painting is illegal, and things seem to be going my way, but it
>
> has been a busy week...
>
> here´s a link with where you can see the pictures:
> http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.708983
>
> DagT
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