To think about all the money we spent on doing it right???
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Hey, who told you that you could follow me around with a camera?
I loved the duct tape and 2x4 extensions on the ladder. Maybe WCR can make a ladder extension kit for the store. 
Haha that is absolutely funny
Hey Chris I thought you got rid of your scooter a long time ago?
Are you kidding me? That thing is a bigger chick magnet than Dormatex’s candy-van! I’ll be buried with it someday lol
Oh my gosh… the old guy who`s towing the ladder with his bicycle lives down my street. No joke, man.
He`s totally hard core… out there every day of the week. He practically has all of my neighborhood as clients.
Everyone and their brother knows this guys around here except me cause I didnt grow up in Montreal. Ill have to tell him that he`s a celeb, now that half the window cleaners in N. America have seen him and are learning the secrets to real simplicity and operation streamline. Hey, I thought I was cutting costs and avoiding traffic by taking the bus to one of my routes!!
Can photos like these that are pulled from the net be used in a type of marketing material without getting into any issues with the people in the pictures or the person that took the picture?
Thanks,Nick
Nick,
Once photos are on the internet they are public domain. That is why when you see photos from companies like istockphoto, they put water marks on them to keep them from being reproduced. So yes, you can take them and use them for marketing
The only exception to that rule is what the copyright office calls art. This would be cd covers, pictures of works of art, etc.
Thanks Brett.
Nick
Yeah, I thought that was your Spree in the picture!
Hey, was it just a west-coast thing, or do you remember back around 1985-86 or somewhere about then- “scooter-gangs” made up of a bunch of teens with Spree scooters. I remember seeing them driving around in packs of like 5-10 kids. I remember sometimes the really “cool” kids had their “ghetto-blasters” strapped on the back.
Maybe it was just a local trend- I haven’t thought of it since back then. Seeing ur vintage scooter brings back the memories;)
[QUOTE=WoodysWindows;94729]Yeah, I thought that was your Spree in the picture!
Hey, was it just a west-coast thing, or do you remember back around 1985-86 or somewhere about then- “scooter-gangs” made up of a bunch of teens with Spree scooters. I remember seeing them driving around in packs of like 5-10 kids. I remember sometimes the really “cool” kids had their “ghetto-blasters” strapped on the back.
Nate,
Are you talking “Cap Peelers” on scooters (Hardcore Gang Bangers) or the local Vespa Club? Never saw the “Cap Peelers” type in NJ growing up.
Public and Public Domain are 2 different things. As an artists/writer/photog/musician, the moment you create a work, even if not registered, you own it. When you register it, it legally becomes yours. 75 years after your death, it becomes Public Domain. For example, you can download both the new Justin Beiber song, or Mozart’s 5th from the same place, and they can only come after you (legally) for the Beiber song (Public, but not PD), because Mozart’s work is in the Public Domain, and therefore can be used / owned / modified by anyone.
It all boils down to the Berne Convention, Visual art fair use falls under the same general laws as fair use in music, although since joining in 1988, the US keeps making its own little adjustments and addendum to the laws. Not to mention that everytime a new medium or www comes out nowadays the Berne nations scramble to find a way to protect the artist’s interests.
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I’m not familiar with “Cap Peelers”.
No these were not actual gang members. I was only like 9 or 10 years old at the time. As I recall, I might be walking down the street and suddenly I would detect the faint hum of their approach. It would start as a low buzz…and would continue to grow louder like an angry swarm of bees approaching. Then suddenly out of nowhere- you would see them come flying around the street corner. 5-10-15 nerdy teenagers on Spree scooters all riding in a pack like some sorta bad outlaw scooter-gang!
They were just nerds with toys and my friends and I just allways referred to them as the “scooter-gangs”
But who knows, maybe they did do hardcore gangster stuff. Maybe they had scooter turf-wars and would jack the other nerds up if they got caught out alone riding their scooter in the wrong “hood”!
Ahh- yeah I don’t think these kids were that type;)
Ettore Steccone used to run his window cleaning routes on an Indian motorcycle carrying section ladders. He ran his arms thru them and carried them while riding.
I like that last one. Great idea.
Had to have been a trend out there bro lol
