Copyright Theft
Perhaps we should be flattered by the number of people including dealers who continually infringe our IP (Intellectual Property) rights by using our copyright images, but we do not find it amusing, and will take legal action against any copyright thieves.
ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com
ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com is just one of the many coin dealers, bloggers & websites worldwide who commit copyright theft by using our copyright images without our permission. On their page site, a page of which we reproduce here, they are clearly using our 2010 Gold Proof Sovereign and our 2005 Gold Proof Sovereign images.
Sample Listing
“#0435* – 0.2354 troy ounces of Pure GOLD
#0435* – 0.2354 troy ounces of Pure GOLD!
.Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable!
.The corruption of EUkip’s leadership,
their anti UKIP claque in POWER & the NEC
is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name!
.0.2354 troy ounces of Pure GOLD A BRITISH STANDARD!
BEING THE WEIGHT of A SOVEREIGN COMMEMORATING St. GEORGE!”
What’s Wrong?
It is dishonest and unethical to pirate and steal other people’s work by using high quality copyright photographs without the owner’s consent. We can partially understand why they do it; it is quick and easy (but then so is robbing people).