Hello all, this is Marshall Tcharkanian, Legal Representative for On the John News, the authoring site of the article you are discussing above. First I would like to appoligize for regestering on this forum when I have absolutely no intention of postin here aside from this one message. If the administrator would like to delete me after this is read, that would be fine. I could not find a contact email address or any other alternative contact so I was left with no choice but to register. Second, I would like to thank all of you for appreciating my clients work. I would only ask two things of you and I hope that they can be taken care of as soon as possible. First, the image above is being hotlinked off of my clients server. He is constantly having bandwidth issues because of the sites popularity and does not permit hotlinking under any circumstance. My client has made it clear the he does not mind of other sites wish to use his images, so long as they are saved unto a different server and not being hotlinked off of his own. The second thing that I would ask is that you trim down my clients article that was copied and pasted above. My client is currently allowing message boards, blogs and other sites of this nature to reproduce only the first 2 or 3 paragraphs of a story and then provide a link back to the page it was taken from with a tag that reads something like "read the rest here." By reproducing my clients articles in full you leave your readers no reason to visit my clients site, and therefor causing him to not benifit from his own work. If these two issuse could be resolved by either system administrators or the original author of the post, it would be much appreicated. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at [email protected]. Thank you again for your time and for enjoying my clients work. Sorry to disturb your private message board.
Marshall Tcharkanian
Legal Representative
On the John News
http://www.onthejohnnews.com
[email protected]