Gold Strike Colorado Prospecting, copyright violations and slander etc Options

[CP]

Unfortunately it's time we must address some illegal use (multiple copyright infringements for commercial/financial gain) without permission of one of our pictures.

Mr. RD (Don) Finley (AKA Sandaway in this forum), owner operator of Gold Strike Colorado Prospecting, Gold Strike Colorado Gold Adventures, and GoldStrike Colorado Paydirt, is here by publically notified of his infringement and is requested by the copyright owner (ColoradoProspector/Denise and Myself) to remove all copies of the Vic's gold panning picture he has currently in use on his websites clearly in violation of our ownership exclusive rights and laws pertaining to them.
You are also publically notified/requested to remove all slanderous material (out right or implied) from your webpages concerning Colorado Prospector club and or website.

Demonstrations of some of the violations/infringements and slander found and recorded on 4/3/2012 are as follows..........

Original work/picture from the Colorado Prospector website.
Vic's Gold Panning page on Colorado Prospector website since 2003

Slander (part A) of the Colorado Prospector club - August 5, 2011 on Gold Strike Colorado Gold Adventures


Slander (part B - same page) of the Colorado Prospector club - August 5, 2011 on Gold Strike Colorado Gold Adventures



Copyright violation/illegal use (Colorado Prospector copyrighted photo used without permission for commercial/financial gain) - Nov. 6, 2011 - GoldStrike Colorado Paydirt (Vic's paydirt)



Copyright violation/illegal use (Colorado Prospector copyrighted photo used without permission for commercial/financial gain) - GoldStrike Colorado Paydirt (Homepage)



Copyright violation/illegal use (Colorado Prospector copyrighted photo used without permission for commercial/financial gain) - Feb. 19, 2012 - Gold Strike Colorado Adventures



As I read up on copyright law, I find that there is a time frame of 3 years for civil and 5 years for criminal proceedings to be intiated.
We will keep litigation under consideration depending on your cooperation henceforth as per requested above.

I'm quite sure in time you'll find that you should not have been jerkin' on the Colorado Prospector club/website's chain!! It's attatched to the CP train which is steaming ahead!

To anyone else reading this posting.....I'd be very careful spending any time or money with someone who's so completely unprofessional, unethical, immoral.......etc etc. As you can see from past actions of his own, this is his character/nature he operates his businesses under!
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Colorado Prospector club and website has NO AFFILIATION with this person or any of his businesses!!

This post has been edited by ColoradoProspector: Apr 7 2012, 12:03 PM

Reason for edit: Edited to remove my personal remark

[Gold-N-Sand]

I respond rarely to posts however I feel this needs my personal attention. This libel attack on Don Finley's character is a statement made with actual malice. The defamation of Don Finley as if it were true is going to cause him emotional and financial harm and I urge you to stop! Those of you reading this post and vowing to join the "Train" need to question your actions you are about to take. These statements in fact are not true! I know and work with Don Finley on a daily basis and consider him to be an asset to our non-profit group (Gold Unlimited) and all prospectors in the State. He also has a successful paydirt business that I helped him start. He may have made a mistake using a picture from CP but when notified the pix was removed. He has also posted on his blog, some very nice "free" prospecting sites and has insisted that Recreational Prospectors venture to these areas located all over the greater Denver area. Since the formation of the our non-profit group, "Gold Unlimited" Don has spent many thankless and exhausting days if not months working on the behalf of the urban and recreational prospector to secure these "free" sites from our cities and counties. I hope you are all aware that Federal land rights are of no use in this arena, just take a look at the BLM 2005 map for the shock of your life; there is absolutely no land left that has not been given away or "Surrendered" to a county. WE ALL, as prospectors, need Don Finley working on our behalf. His dedication to recreational prospecting in the Denver area is absolutely essential to preserve historical sites and secure open access to local areas. This forum would be better off served to work together with Don's agenda then against. Thank you, RED

[h20prospector]

I respond rarely to posts however I feel this needs my personal attention. This libel attack on Don Finley's character is a statement made with actual malice. The defamation of Don Finley as if it were true is going to cause him emotional and financial harm and I urge you to stop! . He has also posted on his blog, some very nice "free" prospecting sites and has insisted that Recreational Prospectors venture to these areas located all over the greater Denver area.

Red,

You say Don Finley has nice things to say about Dan (CP). Why is it last night, when I went to his site, specifically to his blog, did I saw a "Public Notification of Ceast (should be spelled Cease) and Desist" and it wasn't a nice portrayal of CP. Regardless of who threw the first "punch," like Rodney King said "why can't we all just get along." Let his comments on his forum paint a pretty picture of Dan, and the same on this forum. Derogatory comments are approved and edited, when necessary on both forums, aren't they? Let's agree to disagree (as long as no legal issues crop up), and not make posts on either forum, period. To say he and his business will suffer "emotional and financial harm," is a crock. Only a court of law can decide that. Let's tuck our tails between our legs, and get on with it. Have him listen to Taylor Swift's song "Mean", and Dan will do the same.