Should I be mad about this?

[LegoDad]

I was trolling ebay today and found some pictures that were taken by me, only they were for another auction. A lot of Lego that I had sold was being sold by the person I sold them to using my pictures, not their own. It's not like they show anything incriminating or anything, just of gave me the wrong feeling that someone copied/pasted my pictures to use for their auction. Should I say something to the seller? ebay? Just not worry about it? Let me know if this has happened to you and if taking action is even necessary. Thanks for any input.

[ticktockclock]

I was trolling ebay today and found some pictures that were taken by me, only they were for another auction. A lot of Lego that I had sold was being sold by the person I sold them to using my pictures, not their own. It's not like they show anything incriminating or anything, just of gave me the wrong feeling that someone copied/pasted my pictures to use for their auction. Should I say something to the seller? ebay? Just not worry about it? Let me know if this has happened to you and if taking action is even necessary. Thanks for any input.

If I understand you correctly, this is for bulk lego. You sold a lot to a guy, now this guy is selling it to someone else. Did he not remove anything from the lot? Seems odd to buy a lot of lego (which can be a pain in the megablocks or at the very least a crapshoot) just to immediately resell.

Anyways, as long is it's not misleading and is the same exact pieces you sold him, then it's not really a disservice to other users. You'd likely be wasting your time, though I can totally understand being slightly put off by this happening.

[LegoDad]

If I understand you correctly, this is for bulk lego. You sold a lot to a guy, now this guy is selling it to someone else. Did he not remove anything from the lot? Seems odd to buy a lot of lego (which can be a pain in the megablocks or at the very least a crapshoot) just to immediately resell.

Anyways, as long is it's not misleading and is the same exact pieces you sold him, then it's not really a disservice to other users. You'd likely be wasting your time, though I can totally understand being slightly put off by this happening.

I have no idea if he changed the lot that I sold him or not, just that he's using the pictures that I used when I had it up on ebay and he purchased it. He could very well have cherry picked a bunch of pieces and then tried to resell, I don't care about that, I just kind of wish he would have taken his own pictures and used those.

[Faefrost]

If he is selling the same lot that you sold him, then it is technically ok. It's still the legitimate pictures of the actual product offered. It's kind of rude to reuse your pictures without asking, but so long as it is still the exact product photographed it is probably within the lines of being above board.

If he has altered the lot in any way then no, he should not be using those pictures.

[LEGO Guy Bri]

I'd only be angry if he made more money off the lot. Still, quite a bizarre find, and like already said, probably a waste of your time

[Cara]

Its your picture so its your copyright. Yes its hard to enforce but if you are feeling firmly enough abut it complain to ebay and tell them that that user has no right/permission to use that image.

Edited September 8, 2012 by Cara

[Darth Dino]

Hi

it is always fun to read that in times where many people (i do not say you) have many illegal copied files like music and or movies without feeling bad.

I am a photographer and there are many ways to protect your work. Watermarking is just one way to do so, but not the only one. I prefere to make my images unique - lightning, background, style and illumination. If the steal is so obvious, it will protect the images from being stolen.

At the end, i had to say in Germany you are able to send the person that used your work a bill for the images. And it is unimportant how much the lot get on ebay - it only important how much your work is worth (for yourself). E.g. a stolen picture in a very small local newspaper can be easily 1000-3000€....

But at first you will have to know where to send your bill - so you have to ask and inform ebay.

Dino

[LegoDad]

I'd only be angry if he made more money off the lot. Still, quite a bizarre find, and like already said, probably a waste of your time

Well, he's trying to make more, but that's capitalism, don't blame him for that at all, I would do the same thing. I will let it go, may send him an email saying I would have appreciated asking permission, but I'm not going to waste a bunch of my time on this, just was interested if there was precedent on this with any of you on here.

EDIT: I should have also added that he is using my exact listing too, word for word.

Edited September 8, 2012 by LegoDad

[TheLegoDr]

It may or may not be a disservice to other buyers. But I would definitely have contacted eBay about it regarding usage rights of a photo. At the very least, they would take their own pictures and re-list it. If they make more money or not, the market is fickle at times.

Good luck with what you come up with.