Please remove my pictures

Please remove my pictures
Douglas Westfall (Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:58:59 PST)

World BulbsDoug Westfall enquiries@worldbulbs.co.uk1111 Claiborne Dr. Long
Beach, CA

To PBS members,

I just received the following Email and thought that I'd pass it on to those
concerned.

Doug

Thanks for your E-mail which has just been passed to me for my
attention.Your images will be removed within the next 12 hours.
Whatever the circumstances behind the aquisition and use of your pictures,
as owner of the business I am accountable for this situation and I have sent
a detailed response to the Secretary of the International Bulb Society.
It is obvious that a number of images have been 'lifted' from your site and
it now also transpires that some of the images from a large collection that
we had permission to use are not in fact owned by the person granting us
permission!
It is very regrettable that this situation has been allowed to degenerate to
such a level and (understandably) has created so much ill-feeling.
Mike Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Westfall" <eagle85@flash.net>
To: <enquiries@worldbulbs.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:11 AM
Subject: Please remove my pictures

I respectfully request that you remove my bulb pictures from your web

page.

They are the following: Haemanthus carneus, Haemanthus coccineus,

Haemanthus

pauculifolius, and Veltheimia capensis. You have stolen these from either

both the IBS Gallery or the IBS Wiki pages.

Had you bothered to ask my permission, I most probably granted your

request.

However, what you have done is unethical and illegal!

I did send notice to you a couple of days ago and you have not responded.

am requesting that you respond and remove the pictures. You do not have
permission to use my pictures!

Douglas Westfall