1992 D Close AM Found, Pictures Included

I found the video being discussed and he uses 3 of the pictures I posted. He also uses 1 of my pictures in the thumbnail. It bothers me the courtesy of just asking wasn't even extended since it is monetized content. I will look into what I can do about it.

@Tom smith coin My thoughts exactly. Congrats on your find by the way!

Kookoox10,

Having tried to contact you before but failed, possibly you could also pull the one on my 1943-S DDO-005 discovery. I appreciate your apology for doing such things, but you did not ask me for permission to use my photos and I would have said yes if you removed the making money aspect for that video. Estimates are that you have made some $2500 from the video with my coin photos in it, and I have been and continue to be peeved that you did that. I post here for education purposes, not for folks to make money off my images.

Make your income however you choose, but please don't use my photography to do that without paying me for the use of the photos. I know the value of images, and have been published with full page photos in such places as National Geographic and Shutterbug Magazine among others. I note that they do not, ever, use a photo without written consent from the photographer. Please stop doing this entirely for all and any images you do not have consent for, and would be nice if you removed all the previous videos where you've done this.

People can work with you, and your business, but you have to engage and contact them first. I hope you will do so in the future.

Tropicalbats & Silver Cents. Geez...I wish I made the money you guys claim I do, Youtube/Google doesn't pay nearly enough for educational/blog videos that you might think. And while I'm flattered that you think I make six figures is just not true, I'm not rich and live a modest life. My wife does the heavy lifting with her nursing job, so I do concede very heavily to that.
I'm very use to the fair use laws regarding images, so I know my boundries and don't normally take images from forum sites and I do ask for permission save for a couple recent instances where I got lazy and not asked. Generally only relegated to sites like ebay where the content I make is relevant to a current trend or market reports and the images provided is public and usable. It's a good thing I don't a lot of "forum" driven material on my channel, removing the 1943 steel cent discovery video is easy (congrats btw Tropical)and I will do that along with only a couple others. And while appreciate the "we will work with you" sentiment, it's not as easy or friendly as you make it out to be. The Youtube side of education for coins has always been looked down upon by some esteemed members of the forum communities, whether CCF or others.

As TropicBats said, it isn't about how much money you make from something. If you're making even A SINGLE CENT from the video, just upright stealing the images and using them without permission, is plain wrong.

Remember, removing those videos will not completely solve the problem. Do not continue using images without permission, simple as that.

Look man, I was a longtime sub for quite a while. But I had to unsub, when you made the video on the 81 Dbl Stk LMC I found I was cool with it because you asked. But it's not a couple, nor is it recent only. This has been a reoccurring issue for around a year. I'm not gonna sit here and just crap all over you, but it's just exasperating. I've had in my career 3 YT channels. 1 got taken down for guideline violations, 1 is active to this date, and the other was a coin and numismatic channel that is inactive. If I ever used someone else's photos, even if it was public domain or fair use I always, always reached out and asked. I made clear to them in what context their photos were going to be used for and for what purpose. My issue comes down to that you rarely credited your sources, and when you did it was limited to "The user by the name of XXX found YYY". That wouldn't pass muster if you accidentally used an actually copyrighted image.




The reason for that being a vast majority are, and I'm gonna say it, complete and total morons who have not a clue what the heck they're talking about. Take CGOM, he's got 3.7k subs and about as sharp as silly putty. He never had a clue what on God's Green Earth he was talking about. "Oh look at this RPM!! It's worth so much money!!" No that's Machine Doubling, here's the difference, read this thread, here's this article, reference this book. The point being no matter how much I tried to help educate him, he wouldn't listen. If you think I was being hostile while doing it I have no qualms with linking each and every comment. He eventually shadow banned me from his comments for calling him out every, , upload. Why did I do it? Because he has people who think he knows what he's talking about. Granted at the time he had about half the subs he does now, but everyone believed him. He was misinforming over 1000 people. It would be one thing if he had 50 or 100 subs, even then, that's pretty bad, but when you hit a solid audience, it's just not acceptable. That's why the YT community gets so much crap. To your credit, you do actually know what you're talking about, so I can commend you for that wholy. Just for the sake of argument I just checked his channel and he's the same as ever.

Why am I singling out one guy? Because it's not just one guy. For each informative, ACCURATE, video there is 100 bad ones and it's just not manageable. That's why a lot of people don't have much respect for the community.

But that doesn't mean there isn't good people. RFT is a great example, he's a genuine guy who doesn't claim to know more than he does, and doesn't even claim that everything he says is 100% accurate. The 1 time I ever made a correction in the comments he thanked me and talked about it in his next stream so more people would know.




CCF is friendly, vastly so, much more than cointalk or the Clt boards. But there's a reason it's called the Coin Community Family. We as a group all know each other pretty well, especially those of us who have stuck around. I know many of the members on here personally, and have and do chit chat with them casually during my free time and see them as personal friends. I've met and hung out with people from CCF before. When a member dies we grieve as a community, as a family. The problem begins when you try to take advantage of that family, and I don't like the word advantage, because it's not exactly accurate. You see an opportunity, and you take it. That's what capitalism is, and I'm all for it in general. However, there are 2 instances where I don't agree. When you infringe on another person or entities rights, or when you violate standard morals. Nobody nor no company's gonna care if I use a copyrighted picture of a tree for a powerpoint for class, but they will if I use it for other forms of gain. Why do they care? Because you violated their rights. While a vast majority of photos here aren't copyrighted, they are someone's property to an extent. If hfjacinto sends me a picture of a beautiful starry sky he took on his phone, and I turn around and print the picture and sell it to a friend for $5 what I have done isn't illegal, but it's immoral. That's what it comes down to.

I don't hate you as a person. I don't hate your YT Channel. I don't hate what your mission statement is. What I dislike is the execution. Take issue of that if you will.

Well put.

-CH27