Dishonest site: www.gsddata.com - Page 5

My website,  data inserted here not there.

You can't just harvest a whole website of all its data and expect it to be legal no matter where that original website got it from. 

The "Open Database" concept means that most/all of its information comes from user contributed input. That does not equal "free for all to use".   The law just isn't like that, no matter how justified you feel it should be that way.

(look at facebook, linkedin, etc..)  the format and presentation of the data has actually no relevance in that matter.,  someone copying my formatting would simply flatter me.  (not that anyone would, Im such an engineer that I treat function soooo much over form ;) )

Brittany - sign in and and you get the info. If you are not a registered user ( free by the way) you don't get it.  Whoops did I maybe just make an inadvertant funny.

VKFGSD the ownership of a photo belongs to the photographer, copyright applies to any photo taken and used in conjunction with financial gain without obtaining the copyright or the photo owners consent. If you place a photo of your own dog, on your own website to gain stud money or sell puppies but you were not the photographer and you neither sought photographers permission to use it or to purchase the copyright then the photographer could sue you for breach of copyright. If gsddata.com has photo's on the site that were not put there by the copyright owner or with copyright owners permission then that site is in breach of copyright laws and Oli is perfectly within his rights to sue. It appears he already has a few owners confirming the photo was only posted on this site so how did it appear on gsddata unless by fraudulent means?

Oli have you noticed the 'For Sale' sign on the front page of  gsddata.com site? Would be sad if some poor unsuspecting soul buys the site in good faith then suffers financial loss from copyright court battle, so please act quickly.

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well actually mr bicolor when i post pics on this database i might not want them posted here there and everywhere!!

oli has spent a long time and a hell of a lot of work setting this site up and i dont think its right and i hope he sues the ass of gsddata,

anyway gsd data looks rubish!!!

good luck oli

he he im not mad mr bicolor's post just dissapeared!

Yeah,  minor legal discussions going on,.  Which are fun, when in context.

I thought bicolors post was an uninformed 'smart-ass' remark that didn't deserve a response nor visibility

VKFGSD,
I was already signed in when I went to my dogs information. The membership is free but you're so limited to what you can do on the site. you're given a trial date in which that date expires you would have to pay a membership fee, which wasn't discussed on the thread.

I had no desire to pay a membership on GSDdata and therefor I quit going to GSDdata because I was limited.

I can get the same service that I can get here for absolutely nothing, free.

oh and you were complaining that Oli puts ads on this site. Oli needs $$$ to contuine to maintain his servers along with monthly fees. I'm sure that maintaining this site isn't cheap and thefour I have no problem with Oli using the google ads. It's sure better then having to pay for a membership.

Oli, please keep us informed.  It's sad when some "Johnny come lately" tries to grab all your work and cash in on it.  Please keep us informed.  I think the laws are on your side just as you say.

I have sent an email to gsddata asking them to remove all my dogs from their site as the information was stolen from this site and they do not have my permision to use my pictures on their site.

He emailed back; prove copyright.   Dumb twit does not understand that the pictures have our name right on them....

Oli,

Did I touch a nerve????? As I said, you have the right to make money and pay for costs, even a profit. And if you feel that strongly about the issue,  get a lawyer and go to court rather than whine.