Hello M
I am responding to you in this manner because the email address you left on my website is not a working email address. The link you posted for your picture copyright information doesn't work either.
I got your message loud and clear. I do not understand in this day and age why people feel the need to be threatening when they encounter something they don't like or disagree with. If I met you in person and you asked me about the pictures, I would have realized my error, apologized for my mistake and removed them from my site. I try to handle all things in life that way but I guess that is just me.
In response to your message. When I put together the website I did a google image search for "pictures of Somerset PA fireworks" and the pictures in question, as well as many others came up. There were no copyright tags, watermarks or any information tying the picture to you as the photographer or the owner of said pics. I didn't know whom to contact as they were just two of hundreds of images that were on the internet. Had there been a way to contact you for the rights to use them I certainly would have.
To further prove my innocence, when I submit my pages to the web developer for approval, they are supposed to be checking and scanning for copyrighted images, which assuming they did so, they obviously didn't determine them to be.
I was not trying to maliciously steal your images, be illegitimate, or be disgusting in any way. I just found them to be very nice pictures and at that time they were, whether you intended them to be or not, in the public domain. I am glad that you have since gotten the pictures copyrighted so no one else can make the same mistake as I made.
I have removed the pictures from my site. I apologize for what was truly an honest mistake.
Have a wonderful day.
Albert D. Knoblach
Little Big Shots, Ltd.
8112 National Pike
Addison, PA 15411
814-395 -5713
ltlbigshots@Gmail.com
littlebigshots.net
I am responding to you in this manner because the email address you left on my website is not a working email address. The link you posted for your picture copyright information doesn't work either.
I got your message loud and clear. I do not understand in this day and age why people feel the need to be threatening when they encounter something they don't like or disagree with. If I met you in person and you asked me about the pictures, I would have realized my error, apologized for my mistake and removed them from my site. I try to handle all things in life that way but I guess that is just me.
In response to your message. When I put together the website I did a google image search for "pictures of Somerset PA fireworks" and the pictures in question, as well as many others came up. There were no copyright tags, watermarks or any information tying the picture to you as the photographer or the owner of said pics. I didn't know whom to contact as they were just two of hundreds of images that were on the internet. Had there been a way to contact you for the rights to use them I certainly would have.
To further prove my innocence, when I submit my pages to the web developer for approval, they are supposed to be checking and scanning for copyrighted images, which assuming they did so, they obviously didn't determine them to be.
I was not trying to maliciously steal your images, be illegitimate, or be disgusting in any way. I just found them to be very nice pictures and at that time they were, whether you intended them to be or not, in the public domain. I am glad that you have since gotten the pictures copyrighted so no one else can make the same mistake as I made.
I have removed the pictures from my site. I apologize for what was truly an honest mistake.
Have a wonderful day.
Albert D. Knoblach
Little Big Shots, Ltd.
8112 National Pike
Addison, PA 15411
814-395 -5713
ltlbigshots@Gmail.com
littlebigshots.net