• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Copyright Infringement Reports (Review guidelines in post #1 before posting here)

OK... Some good news:

Yesterdya afternoon, I received an email form TWC asking permission to use my reporting website on the air to show early reports in the OKC area. My thought was that my permission was not even really needed, but was taken aback that they even asked.

In the end, I gave them the permissions they needed and they did end up using it on the air last night.
 
Anthony Petito said:
OK... Some good news:

Yesterdya afternoon, I received an email form TWC asking permission to use my reporting website on the air to show early reports in the OKC area. My thought was that my permission was not even really needed, but was taken aback that they even asked.

In the end, I gave them the permissions they needed and they did end up using it on the air last night.
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I sure hope you charged them, because it's obvious you were doing them a huge service if they came to you. Not like they have a whole graphics team on staff or anything :rolleyes:
 
Anthony Petito said:
OK... Some good news:

Yesterdya afternoon, I received an email form TWC asking permission to use my reporting website on the air to show early reports in the OKC area. My thought was that my permission was not even really needed, but was taken aback that they even asked.

In the end, I gave them the permissions they needed and they did end up using it on the air last night.
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That's a cool map you have there Anthony. First time I noticed it. Nice work!
 
If a Stormtrack member is using a copyrighted image (someone else's) as their avatar, we should PM the member first, correct? (Perhaps they have permission?)
 
A bunch of Nguyen photos:

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing?id=3215029
http://www.polyvore.com/rainbow_tornado/thing?id=3777168
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing?id=5179151
http://www.polyvore.com/apod_2006_july_tornado_rainbow/thing?id=2149813
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing?id=1348915
http://www.polyvore.com/wichita-ks-j2004tornado.jpg_540_360_pixels/thing?id=1348921

The service that hosts these is weird (IMO) -- how they are doing this without Getty or Corbis's lawyers descending on them, I have no idea. Here's their description, from their website:

"Polyvore is a free, easy-to-use web-based application for mixing and matching images from anywhere on the web. It is also a vibrant community of creative and stylish people.

Polyvore lets you create sets composed of individual images using an easy to use, drag and drop editor. After you have created a set, you can publish and share it with your friends and the Polyvore community."


So basically, the site exists so that people can grab images off the web and create derivatives. They actually encourage this, even though their TOS explains that copyrighted content is not allowed. But almost ALL of the images listed on the service are copyrighted content. Very bizarre.


BTW, here are the rest of the tornado images available on the site:


http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/search.things?query=tornado

Along with a couple THOUSAND Corbis images:

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/search.things?displayurl=pro.corbis.com&query=corbis
 
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I've seen a bunch of these sites popping up. So far most have stayed away from severe weather imagery.

Eric's images seems to be a target more now than before and I wonder if it because of the high quality of his images, or it has anything to do with him not being with us anymore, and they don't realize copyright still existing, and now rests with his family.
 
Jason Foster said:
I've seen a bunch of these sites popping up. So far most have stayed away from severe weather imagery.

Eric's images seems to be a target more now than before and I wonder if it because of the high quality of his images, or it has anything to do with him not being with us anymore, and they don't realize copyright still existing, and now rests with his family.
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I think most people infringing Eric's work don't even know who he is. He gets infringed a lot because his photo of the white tornado is incredible and his Corbis affiliation means that his shot has wide (legitimately paid for) distribution all across the internet. One would presumably think that real publishers would know better, as Corbis represents the images -- and Corbis are a pack of wolves when they discover infringements.
 
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