police car photos

[yann]

Hello,

I've recently build a site dedicated to die-cast and real police car collectors. I'd like to know if anyone could send me some free american police car photos from his own dpt to publish it on my site. If you are a police car fan, real french police car photos will probably be available on it in July. Thank you.
I will possibly find french police patches if you're interested in.

[coucousis]

:rolleyes: There is already quite a bit of police car site available on the net....

I find this one pretty complete....http://policecanada.ca/welcome.htm
what will make yours special????

You may very well copy the pictures from other sites!!!!:rolleyes:

[yann]

I know this great site.
But you don't think these sites have copyrighted materials ? I'm looking for free to use and original police car photos. If you know somebody who could help me, it would be very nice.

[coucousis]

I don't ... Sorry yann....

I'm not much of a collector my self!!!!
I've used some of the site pics before and downloaded some on my computer before.... I'm not an expert into copyright so I would not want to induce you into a mistake... You may be right about copyright .... but I think that if the owner of the site would have want to keep his pictures for himself he could have locked them on his site to prevent any kind of downloading!!!! This is not the case at the present time!

Have fun!!!:D

[michiganstud]

THE BEST POLICE CAR SITE ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thousands of pics from all 50 states by state or by new, type of car, whatever you search:

http://anzwers.org/free/policecars/main.html

[kariya_the_dog]

Being a webmaster, there is no 100% way to keep someone from stealing your pictures.
There is ALWAYS a way around it.

[coucousis]

Being a webmaster, there is no 100% way to keep someone from stealing your pictures.
There is ALWAYS a way around it.

OK with that .... But is there a COPYRIGHT offense commited when taking a picture from a public site and downloading it in our computer??? :confused:

[michiganstud]

OK with that .... But is there a COPYRIGHT offense commited when taking a picture from a public site and downloading it in our computer??? :confused:

Not unless it states copyright on the page or on the pic itself. There should be something on the page your taking the pic from.

I am a webmaster of several sites right now and something you can do to avoid most of the problems up front is put your own disclaimer on your page, this is what I use:

"Copyright Credits Are Given Where Known. If Something Here Should Have A Copy Right, Credit Will Be Given Or It Will Be Removed From The Site."

I have never had any trouble but I have heard from other webmasters that if there are any problems they are usually worked out with the disclaimer and emails between persons.

[kariya_the_dog]

a copyright is not violated when you take a picture and save it on your computer.
it is not violated when you take it, upload it somewhere, and give proper credit to whoever.
the violation comes when you take it, put it somewhere and pass it off as your own.
the violation comes when you blatantly steal and try to get away with it.

however, there are some sites out there that even if you gave them credit, a copyright is still violated and you can be sued. a good example of this is wireimage. you are not allowed to reproduce their pictures in any way and if you are caught, they can take legal action on you.

on a related note:
I wouldn't worry too much. When it comes to pics, copyrights will soon enough fade out.
Did you know it's illegal to scan a picture out of a magazine and put it on a site or wherever? I'm betting no, but it is.
But it's one of those things that's violated so much it has lost all it's meaning and will soon become obsolete.
Most people look over such things that know about it and if they don't, they will usually give you a warning saying you have 24 hours to remove it from your site or action will be taken.
I've had the RIAA come after me because of like a few 20 second clips of some songs I had of an unreleased album (i had the snippet album from the record company). They sent me an email saying I had 24 hours to remove them. I did. They never bugged me or emailed me again.

[Tankus]

there are a lot of photos of cars and bikes from all over the world on several threads in general topics I and II......

i dont know how to link the threads to here....but if you look youll find 'em....

[yann]

Thank you Kariya for these interesting explanations about copyright. It's true that the code of the law is increasingly more complex and very technical in the world of internet so it is advisable to be prudent not to do anything wrong or opposite to the law. That's why i would prefer to receive police car pictures directly from policemen, photographers or fans who will give their permission to use it on my website. I'm waiting ... and seeking great photo submissions. Best greetings.

[yann]

New french die-cast police car models are available in poliskarr.org
Hope you'll enjoy these new pictures.