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High End Herps (Inquiry)

Happily our legal system makes it somewhat difficult for a person who doesn't exist to file suit on someone who does :D

Go for it David, Josh, Brian, Damon, etc....... I for one am eagerly awaiting my subpeona :thumbsup:
 
Tigger the Tiger said:
Thirdly, when did you file for a copyright for that photo? There's no watermark on it stating that it's copyrighted. It's nothing but a picture that you took with a camera. And once you emailed it to me, it became my property. The picture was NOT posted to cause you any damage, it was posted for comparison and review because of the uncertainty of paradox being passed geneticly. So do what you want to, because judging by your business dealings with people and your over inflation of your prices, you are a crook. Bob Clark, who's snakes are a hell of a lot better in quaility, sells for way less so to each his own lol......Just remeber, you ain't talking to no dummy.....
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I really hate to have to side with "david"/damon on this one, but you are wrong on this point. The moment any person takes a photo (or creates any form of art in a fixable form) it becomes copyrighted automatically. You DO NOT have to file for a specific copyright on that photo in order to protect it. Some artists will file for a specific copyright if they feel that there is value in the artwork for commercial purposes or that there may be future issues with copyright theft and want a back up system showing chain of rightful ownership in place - but it is not required.

For you to use his photo in any setting outside of the email that he sent to you is a violation of his copyright if he did not grant you permission to use it elsewhere. A lot of people falsely believe that just because photos are posted around the internet they can take and use them as they please and the truth is - you can't. You need permission from the owner/copyright holder of those photos. In otherwords, he is well within his legal rights to demand that you remove his photo from the website you posted it to. Now, the chances of him actually following through on a threat to sue you if you chose to ignore him is very small due to how expensive lawyers/trials can be. But definitely a judge would rule in his favor if he can show himself to be the owner of the photo and that you willfully ignored his request to remove it after having used it in violation of his copyright.
 
Unless it is plainly marked "copyrighted", or "for your use only" then any time someone sends you a picture in the form of an email, it becomes your property, as does the email.

Registering a copyright is not required, but stating it, or marking it is, if you don't want people copying or using it...As I understand it anyway.

Besides, a lying, stealing, cockroach like Damon shouldn't be afforded ANY rights IMO.
 
crotalusadamanteus said:
Unless it is plainly marked "copyrighted", or "for your use only" then any time someone sends you a picture in the form of an email, it becomes your property, as does the email.

Registering a copyright is not required, but stating it, or marking it is, if you don't want people copying or using it...As I understand it anyway.

Besides, a lying, stealing, cockroach like Damon shouldn't be afforded ANY rights IMO.
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Negative. The sending of a photo via email does not in any way, shape, or form, release the copyright or give the recipient any rights to said photo. Also, statement of copyright, while helpful, is not required. Legally, works are assumed to be copyrighted unless the owner releases it for use in the public domain.

Adrian is correct in the first paragraph of his assessment of Mr. Blackman's reply. As for the rest, I haven't followed this saga closely, so I'm not prepared to say either way if the use of the photo qualified as fair use.

This is all a moot point, however, given the cited reason of identity.
 
I stand corrected then. I was told differently, or at least understood differently when I looked into copyrighting my watermark.

But, like you said, fake people can't sue you for anything. Gotta love it. :d
 
Lookie what I found posted over on KS...

wonder what the authorities would do if they knew better



http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1771372,1771372&show_threads=2

LA Press: Louisiana snake breeder says he's in Oakdale to stay
http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/...na-snake-breeder-says-he-s-in-Oakdale-to-stay

THE TOWN TALK (Alexandria, Louisiana) 21 December 09 Louisiana snake breeder says he's in Oakdale to stay (Bret H. McCormick)

Oakdale: David Beauchemin has set up shop and has no plans to go anywhere.

Beauchemin, who lives on Ward Road just south of Oakdale in Allen Parish, has run a snake breeding farm over the Internet, HighEndHerps.com, with wife Tawni for the past several years.

The Web site bills itself as "the most trusted name in private high-end reptile breeding."

But the business has drawn its share of complaints from around Allen Parish, said Grant Willis, the chief deputy for the Allen Parish Sheriff's Office.
Willis said law enforcement officers in the parish are well aware of the Beauchemins and their business.

Sheriff's deputies have received complaints "in spurts" -- mostly what Willis termed "rumors" about missing dogs and cats that people say the couple has taken to feed their snakes.

When the Beauchemins first arrived in Allen Parish about four years ago, there were plenty of complaints. As time passed, they died down, but Willis said the complaints have picked up again recently.

"We try to check into all complaints and try to validate them," Willis said.
So far, however, deputies have been unable to verify any broken laws.
The Beauchemins keep their property gated off with plenty of "no trespassing" signs plastered throughout the wooded area.

Without probable cause, Willis said, authorities cannot go beyond the Beauchemins' gate to see precisely what is taking place back in the woods.
"It appears the guy abides by all of the laws," Willis said. "Louisiana has very vague laws. That's one of the reasons the guy moved here."

Beauchemin, who didn't respond to attempts to contact him, specializes in high-end snake species such as pythons, boa constrictors and anacondas. High End Herps even advertises its own "creation" -- a pastel ceylonese python "morph" that had been specifically bred at the Allen Parish snake farm.
High End Herps lists a number of different breeds of snakes available through its Web site, ranging from $175 to more than $6,000. Its special python "morph" costs $2,500.

Lt. Jesse Savoie with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said the state has specific laws for trafficking local reptiles, but there aren't any laws pertaining to the type of business being run by the Beachemins.
"This is really new territory," Savoie said. "Now with the advance of time and the procurement of exotic species throughout the world, this guy can get a hold of exotic species from afar. With FedEx and UPS, with the shipping industry as it is, there's little problem for him to procure exotic species. It's new territory for the state of Louisiana because laws have not been enacted."

Savoie said the trafficking of exotic species "is a problem that is expanding" and one that the state might need to look into addressing with new laws. For now, though, the LDWF has no issues with High End Herps.

"We have no evidence that he is trafficking native species," Savoie said.
The authorities do hear the complaints from the public, who seem to have a problem with the Beauchemins' business, however.

"Down on the field level, there is no problem. However, the public is the one that is calling in expressing they have a problem with it," Savoie said. "That's the source of the controversy -- the public. They have a problem with it, and maybe some of his alleged activities."

Despite the controversy, the tone on the Beauchemins' Web site suggests they have no plans to stop doing business.

"This is not just a business or a means of an income to us," the Web site reads. "It is more about these amazing animals and the truly wonderful people that keep them. This IS our life and we live it 24 hours a day every day of every year."
 
LOL So he made friends with the law when he left Cali cutting through AZ. Heads to LA and lays low for a while. Makes friends with the law out there too. Gotta love it. Too bad he didn't get in trouble in Texas. They love locking people up out here. Might have saved a bunch of people a lot of heart ache too.

Give him time though, he'll come through. Scumbags who think they're smarter then everyone else usually slip up good eventually.
 
damon

so, the good people of this parish are worried about the beauchemins trafficking in larger(er) pythons? oh, how naive and wrong they are as that is the least of their problems...

a non-existent morph is no threat to anyone. a convicted murderer however, is. and dont forget about that kidnap at gunpoint story from his cali days.

has anyone tipped-off this newspaper as to who they really have on their hands? if not, i am all over it!

i think that damon/brian/josh/david's problems are about to mount exponentially...

Gino Beniquez
 
Tawnie and David Bowman is one of their new names.


They use it to try and get free puppies

David and Tawnie live in a trailer set way far in the woods. They have no driveway and if you were to drive by and not know where they live, you will pass it by without knowing it.

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any transactions they make, they do out by the road and they won't let anyone back to their property.


And if you want to sue me for putting up information about you..... sue me in a court of law.

PS you will have to use your real name
 
Ritchie Luna said:
They use it to try and get free puppies
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I'm not sure I even want to ask this...(but I can't think of two reasons that a large python breeder would need a large number of puppies)...why?

This might be something that the Louisiana SPCA and/or Humane Society might want to look into. :NoNo:
 
High End Herps Inc said:
I am personally offended that this thread has dropped to page 10 and a month behind of the times!!!

Come on guys, keep this thing alive will you???

David Beauchemin
High End Herps Inc
http://HighEndHerps.com/
(318)335-3673

{as an aside to any non-morons... if you want any cool python morphs or hybrid morphs, come to us,... etc, etc,...}
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you should add.
We feed our reptiles the highest quality FREE pets we can get from craig's list
 
I really hope that isn't true about him looking for puppies and stuff like that to feed his snakes. From my experience a lot of the bigger snakes don't really look that them as food, but there are certainly ways to get around that.

All this talk makes me wonder what might be in this snake he posted a long time ago....lol
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look at the "snake" back by the hand....it just ends. (one could probably argue that it there is a bend in the body, but where would it go)
 
4 hours, a 12 pack, a half bottle of aleve, and I am done reading this one thread. All I can say is WOW. What happened to just calling it quits when you knew you were in trouble? This whole thing is like a darn train wreck, you don't want to watch, but you just cant take your eyes off of it.
 
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