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This is a golden opportunity. Can we punk him? Pick a set and upload proper fronts and then on the back put a message about how bad his site is (or an innapproriate pic of your choice) and then after he scrapes them and they are on his site we have admin pull them from here? This could be fun!

Kind and respectful me: "We wouldn't do that would we?"

True me: 😈

I don't understand how any of you think that because you scanned a card you have a legal claim to the image. The only one who has claim to a card image is the CARD COMPANY that created the card.

TCDB doesn't own the copyright to any of the card images on this site; all of them have been uploaded without permission.

Not saying you are wrong Chuck...but by that logic every ebay auction is violating copywrite law. Every image on the net posted by "people" violates a copywrite law no matter the product. If my car is in the background of a photo I post to social media is visible can KIA sue me because I used their product in a photo? Again I go back to the outline put out by ADMIN on a thread that mysteriously has disappeared. See my former posts and long time forum members will remember. An outline of what is allowed legally and not was shared. If ADMIN is legally correct then any image uploaded here is subject to copywrite tied to this site. The person who uploaded the image is not aggrevied, but TCDB.

Bottom of every page on this site:

Copyright © 2022 Trading Card Database LLC
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

Then that settles it. The only parties aggreived are the card companies. And they won't care because every image on the net is a free advertisement for their product.

"Unlike the ®, a © does not mean a filing was made at the copyright office for protection. Regardless, the owner can file for a copyright registration at any time. Also, a copyright owner really needs to have a copyright registration before it can sue for infringing on their work."   It is an interesting article below:

Baseball Card Legal Terms (cardboardconnection.com)

I'm only talking about serial numbered cards here.. If Topps puts out a card serial numbered to /25, and I happen to get 3/25, do I not become the respective owner on said card?? Because there should not be another card with the same sequence?? Topps paid the rights to manufacture the card, then put it out there for sale. I paid my money to Topps in hopes of getting said card. I then upload to the image to this website who's policy states:

Copyright © 2022 Trading Card Database LLC
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners

Which covers the sets listed here..

I know by uploading the image of said card, I am freely sharing it with this site. Not any other, unless I choose to..

 Sorry C2Cigars to disagree but in the case of serial numbered cards I own the rights to the image of that specific card if I physically own that card. Say a card #'d 1/1 once you buy that card the rights to it and its image belong to you. It is the same concept as an NFT and by scanning it here means I am authorizing TCDB to use my image, it does not make it suddenly public domain. Saying that only the manufaturerer owns the image is wrong because in the case of a serial numbered card by buying the specific card in question IE a 1/1 or any other specific card that transfers ownership of that image to you not the manufacterer. If they just used the generic front image you would be right but using the part of the images that denotes a specific card based on serial number that changes the balance.

Not that I am personally upset about it but that is the legal factual basis for the issue.