eBay wants me to remove my logo from my images - NEVER!

[mxdude!]

So, eBay now wants us to remove our logo from my product images. The images we invested a lot of time and money in and which are therefore copyrighted, eBay now wants to offer our competitors to use for free. All in the name of clarity for eBay buyers.

How can they think we will/can agree to that? We won't. Our competitors would be lauging very hard when they can use our images. We will have our listings taken down the moment eBay starts enforcing that policy rule, and we will expand our webshop efforts. eBay has been pushing us too much lately, this is where we draw the line.

Any thoughts? Let me know. 

[thatsallfolks]

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@johnfduda wrote:

Let's take this even farthur out there. Suppose I steal a picture, a beautiful picture, and use it in a listing here. I crop out a copyright notice. Then eBay steals it for the catalog. And Joe Smuck gets it from the catalog and unknowingly uses it in his listing.

So where does the liability lie. I don'r have much money, neither does Joe. The only one with the big bucks is on the bay.  Joe doesn't claim ownership, I only stole it. The guy with the bucks distributed it and claims ownership.

Where does the hammer fall. 

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First, you’re screwed, especially if the owner registered the copyright. That’s a minimum of $25,000 for removing the watermark. If eBay is found liable, their lawyers would probably take everything you own.

[johnfduda]

" If eBay is found liable, their lawyers would probably take everything you own."

If "eBay is found liable", then they're liable. How do I enter into their liability? I used a picture, they stole it from me, on their own. Besides it was me who helped them get what they want. Title to every image known to man.

Just asking, don't take offense.

[themonitorman]

Any Court issue finding eBay liable - we would assume - has already had to consider where eBay obtained the image, and therefore has already excluded the original Seller from liability in their judgement - or the original Seller would have been included in that judgement.

At the point where a Court has ruled eBay the sole liable entity, then eBay could not pursue a legal suit of any kind against that Seller over the same issue or case.

Appeals of course, probably open a different can of worms.

[johnfduda]

It seems to me a court, Judge or jury, can't assign damages against anyone except those who have tenure. Read the plantiff and or defendant. I suppose the bay could cross sue. But how would that look to the judge. A $Billion corporation crying "HE MADE ME DO IT"

ha ha