I just spent nine hours copying 516 webpages of my images with someone
else's copyright notice on them to a PDF.
I'm submitting an invoice to the offending company tomorrow. I've copied
the PDF to my ISP's webserver, can anyone suggest anywhere else I might
put it that will give some indication that it hasn't been tampered with?
(Just in case the other party decides to take those pages down and deny
knowledge.)

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Roger Whitehead - 19 Jul 2006 22:42 GMT
> an anyone suggest anywhere else I might
> put it that will give some indication that it hasn't been tampered with?
Have you checked the Google cache of their site? That shows you what it
was like on the date it was cached.

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Chris Savage - 20 Jul 2006 01:24 GMT
>> an anyone suggest anywhere else I might
>> put it that will give some indication that it hasn't been tampered with?
>
> Have you checked the Google cache of their site? That shows you what it
> was like on the date it was cached.
It's all accessed by PHP scripts so uncrawled by Google. I wish it
weren't, then I wouldn't have had to sit the whole day dropping pages
into Acrobat.

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Gordon Henderson - 20 Jul 2006 09:46 GMT
>I just spent nine hours copying 516 webpages of my images with someone
>else's copyright notice on them to a PDF.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>(Just in case the other party decides to take those pages down and deny
>knowledge.)
http://www.safesnaps.co.uk/ ?
Possibly not what you want though as it's more of an archive/backup site
than anything else, so no real "public display" type options, and it's
run by a friend of mine, but other than that I've no connection with it.
Gordon
Justin C - 20 Jul 2006 23:18 GMT
> I just spent nine hours copying 516 webpages of my images with someone
> else's copyright notice on them to a PDF.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> (Just in case the other party decides to take those pages down and deny
> knowledge.)
I don't know how you can do what you are asking. A possible alternative
would be to find someone "reputable" (policeman, doctor, judge) who you
can get to access the website and sign off on copies you print that they
have seen those pages on that site.
Obviously, getting them to sign 516 pages would be excessive but a
sample of, say, 10... or 10% may be handy should you need legal
recourse.
I wish you good luck and hope they pay up.
Justin.

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Bandicoot - 03 Aug 2006 02:28 GMT
> I just spent nine hours copying 516 webpages of my images with someone
> else's copyright notice on them to a PDF.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> tampered with? (Just in case the other party decides to take those
> pages down and deny knowledge.)
Email them to someone - your solicitor, even to the offending company. The
email trail itself should be pretty solid evidence.
But as you know, legal advice obtained on Usenet is worth precisely what you
paid for it, so if you have a solicitor, ask them.
Good luck anyway - image theft is bad enough in the first place, but putting
their copyright notice on it is even worse (might increase the damages you
could claim though - for one thing they have now committed the tort of
conversion, so perhaps having that _as well as_ the initial copyright case
will strengthen your hand.)
Peter
Chris Savage - 16 Aug 2006 12:34 GMT
>> I just spent nine hours copying 516 webpages of my images with someone
>> else's copyright notice on them to a PDF.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> conversion, so perhaps having that _as well as_ the initial copyright case
> will strengthen your hand.)
Thanks to those who made suggestions. He's just replied to my invoice
saying he'll take the pictures down now. Too little too late, I feel. So
I'll wait out the 30 days -- now that he's admitted the list of URLS I
sent him are my pictures, and he's been selling them and claiming
copyright since May, I might just get paid next month. That will make a
nice change.

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