From: SethPoppel@aol.com
To: tigger246@hotmail.com
Subject: High School Yearbook Photos of GA and DD on your site
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 20:36:37 EDT
The Seth Poppel Yearbook Archives is the original re-photographer of the images that you have on your site (we took these photos from the high school yearbooks). We own the rights to these particular versions of these photos and you have reproduced them without permission or payment. Your original source for these photos (People/Time Warner) paid for the right to use them!!
You must stop using them immediately. The only authorized Internet sites to pay and arrange for usage of our 10,000 photos are Classmates and the Time Warner/Pathfinder/People groups Your continued use will cause financial damage to both ourselves, Classmates and Time Warner. We have spent a lot of money on the legal research behind usage of these photos and on acquiring
actual copies of the yearbooks and then creating renditions of the photos that are ours...If you would like to go to GA and DD's high schools and photograph a copy of the pictures from their Senior yearbooks, verify that the original photos were a "work for hire" under section 101 of the 1976 Copyright Act, learn the nature of the contract between the high school and the yearbook company and then inspect the yearbook for copyright notation,
you will then be able to publish the photos YOU have taken and protect it the way we protect ours. If the photos are not removed within 24 hours we will begin our own legal action and also notify GeoCities, Time Warner and Classmates. We will also notify anyone who has a business relationship with you (such as links, banners, server provider etc.) that you are involved in
copyright abuse. If there is any negative statement made on your site regarding this action we will consider it to be "tortious interference" and also pursue legal action.
-Seth Poppel
Seth Poppel YearBook Archives
38 Range Drive, Merrick, NY 11566
516-867-6280 phone
516-546-4128 fax
SethPoppel@aol.com E-mail
www.HighSchool.com Website
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