• 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.

Does anyone record severe weather TV coverage?

I figured I wasn't the only one who did this! My wife thought I was crazy. Probably thought I was losing my mind or something.

Some of you guys w/ that old news footage should host it on www.filefront.com for people to download and watch. That would be awesome!

Yeah, except it would probably be a violation of the news stations copyrights to do that.

From personal experience, I think at the very worst they would send legal documentation notifying you to remove all copyrighted materials. If you failed to comply, then they MIGHT file a lawsuit. But with the footage being old, non-profit, etc.. I think the chances of them persuing it are slim to none.

I'm not a legal advisor, and I DID NOT stay at a Holiday Inn Express!

You're right, they most likely would not do anything, but because the chances of them pursuing it are slim to none makes it ok to us their stuff without their permission then? To put in in another light, since the chances of you pursuing someone using your storm video/images is slim to none, is it ok for anyone to use that?

No picking on ya dude, just that we all get up in arms when someone swipes a chasers video/photography, but we (by we I mean chasers on average) sometimes don't seem to apply those same standards when it comes to other copyrighted materials.

Chances are they might let you use it or archive it somewhere if you asked nicely too. Many stations SELL their archived tapes, sometimes for a pretty healthy sum too. I know our station it is $50 per copy for VHS for news stuff.
 
Good points David...

I just hate to see old video go to waste though... I was thinking that since nobody was profiting from it or calling it their own work that it wouldn't all that bad. That would be in contrast to people actually stealing the images, making claims that it's theirs, and selling it to movie producers for profit.

I just didn't see the harm in reposting other people's works (non-edited, original copyright holder, etc.). An example would be me putting a photo of one of your storms on my site and saying "David Drummond took this awesome photo"...

I definitely understand where you're coming from though, after reading your post, since they do try and sell the actual video, so I guess my advice would be to get permission first.
 
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