posted on October 17, 2005 07:00:50 PM
for those who dont know or have been robbed of photos and description in ebay auctions.
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Item Description and Picture Theft
eBay members are not allowed to use another eBay user's pictures or descriptions in their listings or About Me page without the owner's permission. Listings that violate eBay's Picture and Description Theft policy may be removed early. Multiple violations of this policy can result in suspension.
The following examples are not allowed on eBay.
* A seller doesn't know the best way to describe an item. The seller copies a substantial amount of another's description and pastes it into a listing.
* A seller takes someone else's picture and includes it in a listing since it looks very similar to the item the seller is offering.
* A seller likes the way a competitor's About Me page looks. The seller copies the look and feel and a substantial amount of the text and creates an About Me page.
Report another member who is using your text or images without your permission
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* Prohibited, Questionable and Infringing Items
posted on October 20, 2005 03:09:41 PM
Best practice counter measures include: watermark all your images, regularly checking your server logs for image linkers, and including unusual, misspelt or made up words in your text descriptions. These will not prevent text and/or image theft but will make it easier to prove when lodging VeRO complaints with eBay.
I suggest you also offer an image/text licence usage fee of (oh say) $500 to first time offenders to discourage this nasty habit.
