Kilt sample Photos

[Kilted-Marine]

As a general note-Ya really can not get away with too much with this crowd...lol..I do not mind the constructive criticism and in fact it helps us make our site better - we will always be open to comments and suggestions. we did the samples page because many people asked for it

I do find it interested that the only place we posted the .com/samples.htm site was on xmark and within 48 hours we had a letter from the Scottish Tartans Authority telling us they had had a SERIOUS COMPLAINT about us... We are working on that.

When we first opened we had borrowed some ladies pictures from a website...please note this ladies pictures are on about 1000 other sites...but WE received an email from them...lol..we removed the pictures within 24 hours..problem solved.

We had the Royal Coat of Arms-it is now gone-Although I would have liked to get a letter from the Queen for my scrap boook..or at least an email...

We will always strive to make sure we are complying with any and all U.S. laws or laws that are recognized or enforceable within the USA.

[sjrapid]

Mark

The tartan sample pics loaded just fine here - less than 30 seconds to load all the samples from nothing - this over about 4.6kbps DSL in London, UK.

Best regards

[M. A. C. Newsome]

When we first opened we had borrowed some ladies pictures from a website...please note this ladies pictures are on about 1000 other sites...but WE received an email from them...lol..we removed the pictures within 24 hours..problem solved.

We had the Royal Coat of Arms-it is now gone-Although I would have liked to get a letter from the Queen for my scrap boook..or at least an email...

We will always strive to make sure we are complying with any and all U.S. laws or laws that are recognized or enforceable within the USA.

Mark,

One last peice of free advice and then I'll leave you alone. When you take a picture from someone else's web site and then use it on your own, that's not "borrowing." That's stealing. Just because that same picture may appear on lots of other sites does not make it public domain. I think you know that. (I wonder how many of those "other sites" you mention were actually retailing products from the company in question and using their product images legitimately?)

Regardless of whether or not those pictures were public domain or copyrighted material, the fact that you were initially willing to use photographs of another company's products to advertise your own simply isn't good. I didn't say anything when that subject was originally brought up in a different thread here on X Marks because others made the same points I would have made and you were quick to remove those images. However, you bring it up now again as an example of how you are striving to operate your company according to laws that are "enforceable in the USA."

This sentiment illustrates a very minimalist and legalist attitude. "If I can't be punished for it, then it's not wrong to do." But the question shouldn't be "is this enforcable in the USA?" The question should be "is this the right thing to do?"

If a tartan, for instance, is a proprietry design that is protected by law in the UK, the fact that you are having your products made in Pakistan and are selling them in the USA may mean that those protections instituted in the UK are not enforceable (or at least not easily so). But that doesn't make it right.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.