Perhaps we should be flattered by the number of people including dealers who continually infringe our IP (Intellectual Property) rights by using our copyright images, but we do not find it amusing, and will take legal action against any copyright thieves.
What's Wrong?
Five Star have used a number of our high quality copyright coin photographs on their website without our permission. They also include a copyright sign on their pages implying that they are the owners of the Intellectual Property Rights of the material contained on that page. In other words, they are claiming they own our copyright.
Apart from being dishonest, this may also give some web viewers the mistaken impression that we (a smallish UK company) have used Five Star 's (a large US company) photographs.
Pirated Photographs We noted the following of our photographs which Five Star have used:
- French Gold 20 Francs
Five Star have used our photographs of an 1859 Napoleon III French Gold 20 Francs coin. - German Gold 20 Marks of Prussia
1872 Germany 20 Marks - 2004 Canadian Gold Maple Leaf
- More to Follow
via their website, claim:
About Five Star Gold Group:
Five Star Gold Group is proud of its diversified team of gold specialists, rare coin experts and numismatic professionals, and a management team with decades of experience in the rare coin business. Our goal is to help investors diversify a portion of their portfolio into hard assets such as gold and silver through the purchase of bullion coins or numismatic items. Our gold specialists are dedicated to providing you with a comprehensive and personalized investment service committed to your wealth preservation. Numismatic Experts?
We doubt it, and will follow up here with our reasons.
Domain Lookup
Registrant Contact:
Five Star Gold Group LLC
Five Star Gold Group ()Fax:
21250 Hawthorne Blvd
Suite 500
Torrance, CA 90503
USAdministrative Contact:
Five Star Gold Group LLC
Five Star Gold Group (info@brandhorse.com)
+1.9512827263
Fax:
21250 Hawthorne Blvd
Suite 500
Torrance, CA 90503
USTechnical Contact:
Five Star Gold Group LLC
Five Star Gold Group (info@brandhorse.com)
+1.9512827263
Fax:
21250 Hawthorne Blvd
Suite 500
Torrance, CA 90503
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Copyright Notice Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
Copyright Infringements Remedies Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.
Our Images
We have shown two of our own images so that you can compare.
Our Opinion We have a very low opinion of other dealers who steal our images, and use them to compete with us. It is dishonest. We could sue these people, possibly for thousands of dollars, but it costs time and money, and even though we would win and be awarded costs, we might not be able to recover the costs if the copyright thieves turned out to be impecunious or insolvent. That's why we have decided to give these crooks some free advertising our website, something which we do not normally provide even for payment.
Other Web Sites All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-
- Chards
www.chards.co.uk - Investment Gold Bars & Coins (This Site)
taxfreegold.co.uk - General Coins & Jewellery:
www.24carat.co.uk - Gold Sovereigns:
goldsovereigns.co.uk - 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
www.18carat.co.uk - 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
www.9carat.co.uk
Five Star Gold Group gold101.com Catalogue Page 4
Using Two of Our Images
Our Images
Obverse of 1889 William I Prussian (German) Gold Twenty Marks Coin
Obverse of 1859 Napoleon III French Gold 20 Francs
32 - 36 Harrowside, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 1RJ, England. Telephone (44) - (0) 1253 - 343081; Fax 408058;
E-mail: Contact Us The URL for our main page is: taxfreegold.co.uk