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Permalink Reply by Ciaran Davitt on July 14, 2013 at 12:51pm

Good that its taken down. Funny how I just came across it after you had just shown me a picture of the autograph.

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Permalink Reply by Trond Johansen on July 14, 2013 at 12:57pm

Yes, lol. But thank you for bringing it to my attention Ciaran. :-) I am not against people making reprints of autographs, but not without permission/cooperation with the owner. 

Maybe its something to learn here too, I will consider putting a watermark or something on pictures of my own sigs I post in the future. Not funny seeing it on other places on the net sometimes later :P

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Permalink Reply by Rich on July 14, 2013 at 1:01pm

I dislike reprints overall, because 1) They're cheap, tacky and worthless and 2) most are of terrible forgeries anyway.

Figures that one of the few reprints of an authentic autograph is because the seller stole the image.

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Permalink Reply by Ciaran Davitt on July 14, 2013 at 1:30pm

No problem mate. I would have done the same thing to them also as its just plain weird to have someone selling a reprint of one of your own autographs.

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Permalink Reply by John McGinnis on July 19, 2013 at 1:55am

I agree Trond and I know this isn't the case with your item because it is a promo photo, but imagine how the actual photographer feels about his images being reproduced in bulk for autographers to get signed and resale. It is all illegal to some degree when you think about it.

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Permalink Reply by Geoff LaVeine on July 14, 2013 at 1:10pm

Similar situation happened to me.  I got an autograph I posted on here to ask if it was legit (not even 100% sure it is) and somebody obviously copied the signature I posted and used it on preprints. 

Here's the thread - http://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/ebay-seller-has-phot...

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on July 14, 2013 at 1:16pm

How do you put watermarks on a picture? I'd like to do that with my sigs up right now.

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Permalink Reply by Trond Johansen on July 14, 2013 at 1:22pm

I`m not sure what is the best way to do it, maybe somebody on the forum knows?

I agree Rich, reprints is not something I would make myself, and they are worthless.

Sorry to hear that I`m not the only one in this situation Geoff, but I guess people are willing to do anything for money, stealing, forgery, you name it. Sometimes hard to believe in peoples good intentions anymore. :P

Just got an excuse from the seller on Ebay, so don't think he did it with bad intentions though.  

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Permalink Reply by Trond Johansen on July 14, 2013 at 1:59pm

Some tips on watermarking here: http://cameras.about.com/od/photoeditingtips/a/How-To-Watermark-You...

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on July 14, 2013 at 2:34pm

Thanks for the help Trond. I think ill do that from now on. And ill go ahead and do that for the few I have online.

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Permalink Reply by John McGinnis on July 19, 2013 at 1:52am

Keep in mind the pre-prints really cheapen the item to potential customers of your authentic item. If people keep seeing the same image over and over again it becomes less than unique. I know it seems strange that a pre-print could have any affect on an authentic piece, but in a round-about way it actually does. I don't think preprints are going to be going away anytime soon but they should be clearly labeled within ebay titles and not just descriptions. Ebay.ca has a search option that allows you to type in -preprint or -rp, i'm sure it is that way in the states too.

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