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Dear Folks,

I was at Birds Lagoon Village Resort at Thattekkad, Kerala recently and
thought they were nice people.

To my surprise I now find that they have a website called

www.birdslagoon.com

In this website they have not only stolen and used three of my images
on their home page, but have also created their own birds gallery with
all my images ...
they have cut off my copyright statement and have put their logo on my
images instead!

I am quite upset at this outright stealing of my images for their
commercial use. I wonder how they plan to build credibility by
stealing!

I sent them a mail politely requesting them to delete my images ..but
that seems to have fallen to deaf ears...

Will think of my next move after I calm down a bit... suggestions
welcome!

Thanks for listening ..

regards,

Vijay Cavale

PS: A guy called Babu Alias runs the place at Thattekkady while I hear
that Mathew Ouseph (owner?) operates from New York
(peringattu@...)
Also on some of my images is the url : www.netcraftworld.com


Birds Lagoon Thattekkad Village Resort,
Thattekkadu. p.o.
Palamattom,
Kothamangalam - 686691, Kerala.

Tele: 91-485-2572444
e-mail : birdslagoon@...

overseas offices:

Mathew Ouseph,
365 Brons River Raod,
APT No.2N, Yonkers, new York - 10704.
tele : 914-77-66-123
e-mail : peringattu@...

promoted by : KLM Tours & Travels@...
(www.klmtoursandtravels.com)




Thu Nov 4, 2004 12:57 pm

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Dear Folks, I was at Birds Lagoon Village Resort at Thattekkad, Kerala recently and thought they were nice people. To my surprise I now find that they have a...
Vijay Cavale
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Nov 4, 2004
1:10 pm

Hi Vijay This is intolerable. The thing to do is to take them to court. In India, the very legal process is the punishment, say advocates and it would be good...
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anantkris
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Nov 4, 2004
2:28 pm

I have sent an email to both the mail IDs that you have given below. I think all of us on India-nature-pixs can do the same and this should warn them that they...
Suraj Kumaar
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Nov 4, 2004
4:21 pm

All I had sent an email to Vijay in private regarding this. If the website is hosted in the US, then they are violating copyright laws. In the US, the...
Anand Sankaran
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Nov 4, 2004
4:39 pm

Hi Vijay, I thought that they had brought down their website to correct this discrepancy. It really hurts when things like this happen. Here's the complete...
Sudhir Shivaram
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Nov 4, 2004
6:19 pm

Vijay, Thank God, you have original slides to easily prove that images are really yours! - Ganesh. ... http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/sBYolB/TM...
Ganesh HS
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Nov 5, 2004
4:13 am

Hi all, Let us take this incident on a very serious note. To proceed with legal action, the images have to be had registered, that's what my friend said. I...
job.joseph@...
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Nov 5, 2004
4:26 am

Vijay, In case you have to initiate legal action, is it possible for you to collect logs of who, when and howlong were on your site and if possible what all...
Anand Arya
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Nov 5, 2004
4:29 am

Hi vijay, Yes, it is disgusting to see such things happening. Many people copy the images from our sites, but some have the courtesy to retain the names on the...
Suresh R.S.
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Nov 5, 2004
5:30 am

Well the right click and all will operate based on some script and browsers such as mozilla will allow to enable and disable scripts. After downloading the...
Atanu.Mondal@...
atanumondal2000
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Nov 5, 2004
5:49 am

Well , As Suresh RS put it, I think the only way is to "spoil" the image by putting a translucent watermark across the subject. I did some WWW research....
job.joseph@...
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Nov 5, 2004
5:55 am

I guess there are only two ways out of this. 1- Don't post large images on the internet, stick to 600x400 max 2- watermark them I agree both suck, as the...
Anand Sankaran
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Nov 5, 2004
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